We’ve never been in a democracy; we’ve always been in a phallocracy!
Democracy Quotes
Although we the people have delegated limited responsibilities to those who hold public office in the interest of all of us, we, nevertheless, retain ultimate responsibility. We cannot delegate it; it belongs to us. We may fulfill it well or poorly, but still we have it.
What we are looking at, I suspect, is the suicide of democracy – as clumsy and noisy an affair as the suicide of a whale or a locomotive. Whether or not Hitler has invented anything better I can’t make out. But it seems to me to be pretty clear that we are in for some […]
Democracy… is a system of self-determination. It’s the right to make the wrong choice.
I think ‘one man, one vote,’ just unrestricted democracy, would not be wise. There needs to be some kind of protection for the minority which the white people represent now, a minority, and they need and have a right to demand a protection of their rights. (On apartheid in South Africa)
If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.
The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule; the classic example is ancient Athens. And the symbol of it is the fate of Socrates, who was put to death legally, because the majority didn’t like what […]
On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.
She (Margaret Thatcher) is democratic enough to talk down to anyone.
One has the right to be wrong in a democracy.
