2,003 Quotes About Democracy

I realized that this was the big secret of democracy -- that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

Remember something, if you will, about voting: Voting is not a horse race, you're not going there thinking "Gee, I gotta pick the winner so I can brag to my friends 'Oh, I picked so-and-so and he or she won'". Voting is voting your heart and voting your conscience and when you've done that, don't ever, EVER let a Democrat or Republican tell you that you've wasted your vote because the fact is, if you DON'T vote your heart and conscience then you HAVE wasted your vote.

I really am a pessimist. I've always felt that fascism is a more natural governmental condition than democracy. Democracy is a grace. It's something essentially splendid because it's not at all routine or automatic. Fascism goes back to our infancy and childhood, where we were always told how to live. We were told, Yes, you may do this; no, you may not do that. So the secret of fascism is that it has this appeal to people whose later lives are not satisfactory.

Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.

Those in power must spend a lot of their time laughing at us.

Every four years we go through the same cycle of hope and disillusionment.

I've handed life and death back to the people who do the living and the dying.

In a society where the majority choose charisma over character, democracy does more harm than good to the actual progress of that society

الذين يتوهمون أن الشعب المصري لا يستحق الحرية لأنه فقير، لا يعرفون أن فقرنا سببه الأكبر أننا حُرمنا من الديموقراطية والحرية أجيالاً طويلة !