2,003 Quotes About Democracy

No dictator is more powerful than the people. It's only a matter of waking up - waking up to recognize the harms done to the nation.

The failure of the citizens to pray for the nation will lead to its collapse.

It is essential for the rulers’ rule not to be apparent, hence the elite’s ingenious use of “democracy” (dumbocracy), in which the sedated masses are led to believe that they choose how they are governed. Have the cattle ever gone more willingly to the abattoir?

I feel obligated to point out, though, that I have always been a sucker for ideas I find aesthetically pleasing. The cosmic sweep of the thing - an interstellar kula chain - affirming the differences and at the same time emphasizing the similarities of all the intelligent races in the galaxy - tying them together, building common traditions... The notion strikes me as kind of fine.

Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

Threat to secularism in one nation is threat to democracy everywhere.

Donald Trump and his ilk are eating the poor for breakfast, yet the poor keep voting for the billionaire elite ... turkeys voting for Christmas.

The hushing of the criticism of honest opponents is a dangerous thing. It leads some of the best of the critics to unfortunate silence and paralysis of effort, and others to burst into speech so passionately and intemperately as to lose listeners. Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,—criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led,—this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society.

Perhaps, nowhere else on Earth do so many diverse cultures, languages, and beliefs, exist under a shared set of overarching ideas. Because of this, we are challenged with the collective obligation to provide for each other's safety and dignity, regardless of our differences. In this regard, we will either succeed as a society or fail, divided.