2,003 Quotes About Democracy

I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire self-government and happiness to their country, is to be thrown away by the unwise and unworthy passions of their sons, and that my only consolation is to be, that I live not to weep over it.

To all the revolutionaries fighting to throw off the yoke of tyranny around the world: look at British democracy. Is that what you want?

Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes;

It was plausible to vote for Trump if you saw him as the demented Discordian Pope of Chaos, the clown prince whose incompetence and recklessness would bring about the complete destruction of the current paradigm, and its replacement by something much better – Meritocracy. There is no other excuse. He is the stupid man’s candidate.

Revolution fights tyrants, resistance fights tyranny.

It is not enough to remove oppressors, the system of oppression must be dismantled.

And it is customary for those who uphold this absolute form of secretive tyrannical rule to call people like me anarchists, but if all anarchy means is there are no absolute rulers or centralized authority, then shouldn’t that be a basic tenet of a democracy?

The only reason equality in a trade economy is considered a virtue is to allow rule by right of virtue for the fraternity, the libertarian ideal of meritocracy.

If we are to proceed past the never-ending cycles of revolution and arrive at a system of peaceful evolution we need a completely different system of change.