Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.
Democracy Quotes
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted Nazism or Fascism. At best it is merely a cloak to hide the Nazi and the Fascist tendencies of imperialism.
I do not deny the rights of democracy, but I have no illusions as to the uses that will be made of those rights so long as wisdom is rare and pride abundant.
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they were equal in any respect, they were equal absolutely.
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
The motive power of democracy is love.
We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.