2,003 Quotes About Democracy

En democracia la política es un teatro y nadie puede actuar en un teatro sin fingir.

Democracy is the worst insult to any society that is increasingly secular and growing in incivility for there it is more abused than used.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.

[...] there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy [...]

We are not educated well enough to perform the necessary act of intelligently selecting our leaders.

The right of dissent, or, if you prefer, the right to be wrong, is surely fundamental to the existence of a democratic society. That’s the right that went first in every nation that stumbled down the trail toward totalitarianism.

You can't start with a democracy. You have to work up through stuff like tyranny and monarchy first. That way people are so relieved when they get to democracy that they hang on to it.

Wir können in diesem Land entweder eine Demokratie haben oder wir können großen Wohlstand haben, der in den Händen weniger konzentriert liegt, aber wir können nicht beides haben.

Democracy, religion, education and terrorism have all become practicable norms all over the world – thanks to globalization