All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
Democracy Quotes
Democracy is itself a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
What’s the point of having a democracy, if everybody’s going to vote wrong?
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; it’s the counting.
Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy, Of value is thy freight, ’tis not the Present only, The Past is also stored in thee, Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the Western continent alone, Earth’s resume entire floats on thy keel O ship, is steadied by thy spars, With thee Time […]
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway.
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
It is easier for a republican form of government to be applauded than realized.
Democracy is a genus, not a species. Getting a democracy is rather like getting a ‘mammal’ for a gift. Kittens are nice. Wolverines will lunch on your eyeballs. You don’t drop a wolverine in your friend’s lap, and then walk away feeling you’ve done him a favor, since ‘the best pets are mammals.’
