2,003 Quotes About Democracy

Dictatorship is rule of the cunning, democracy is rule of the halfwits. Both are quite degrading for society, cause neither of them is born of merits.

Even a doctor has to go through almost a decade of rigorous training to take care of people's health, and as for a politician who is to take care of the very lives of the people, there is no training! What kind of a deplorable stupidity is this? And we glorify this stupidity with the title of democracy.

We cannot create a truly democratic society till we create a stateless society.

Democracy can cause either regress or progress depending on the character of the people.

If an immigrant's daughter can become the vice-president of our United States, then the day is not far that even an immigrant can become the president - of course it'll require further amendments to the constitution, but that day our sweet land of liberty will truly be an advanced nation on earth.

It is time to be... very brave. Brave enough to speak with people we fear, to face the nuances of our bias, to recognize the frailty of humanity, and to forgive.

The function of democratic living is not to lower standards but to raise those that have been too low.

It is a mistake to tell students that their classroom is a democracy- it cannot and never will be. But children need to learn how to participate in a community and to prepare themselves for democratic citizenship.

Most people do their best to look like a democrat. But the truth is that they are not democrats by nature, they are true imitators, because democracy has come into fashion in modern civilization.