70 Quotes About Democracies-have

The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.

Efforts to bring about democracy have hit a wall and are going backwards.

It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.

So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.

Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.

The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.

Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.