2,003 Quotes About Democracy

System fails when people with ability don't have authority and people with authority don't have ability.

I want to pluck the sun from the sky and set fire to the whole earth, the whole universe. I want to see all creation engulfed in flames. Everything must burn and burn forever. Especially morality. And democracy. I want to see the flesh of those creatures melting in front of me. I want to see all their corrupt bones and internal organs on fire.

Errors do not cease to be errors simply because they’re ratified into law.

Voting gives us an opportunity to choose from options that were chosen for us.

My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without bloodshed. That is the real test. It is perhaps the severest test. But when you are judging the quality of the material you must put it to the severest test.

Hitler was a coward, Did not die like a soldier's, he shot himselfthen where did a coward get the courage to genocide?His confidence was people who were silentHis power was people who were clapping on his steps

The principles governing a potentially successful democratic system are undermined by the adoption of autocratic practices.

If I were making a country, I'd get the sewage pipes first, then the democracy, then I'd go about giving pamphlets and statues of Gandhi to other people, but what do I know? I'm just a murderer!

A civilized nation never uses terms like majority and minority to refer to people, it's only the uncivilized nation that does so. In people we’ll find salvation.