2,003 Quotes About Democracy

The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end to predominate, is not that which can exist between a capitalist as chief, and work-people without a voice in the management, but the association of the labourers themselves on terms of equality, collectively owning the capital with which they carry on their operations, and working under managers elected and removable by themselves.

Other sovereign democratic states have central governments more corrupted other than our own, but most can fall back on unifying elements we lack: common ethnicity, a shared religion, or near-universal consensus on many fundamental political issues. The United States needs its central government to function cleanly, openly, and efficiently because it's one of the few things binding us together.

A billion foolish people do not form even a single wise person.

Most fundamentally, the U.S. military is—and will continue to be—a product of our culture and our collective decisions. Whatever it is, it's what we have made it.

The purpose of a democratic government is to protect the poor from the rich. The purpose of religion is to protect the rich from the poor.

Politicians when they are eating. They are eating alone with their family and they don't call or involve anyone, but when they are fighting. They are calling and involving everyone to fight for them and to fight with them, in their corruption battles.

As long as there exist stupid people supporting stupid governments in their countries, people living in those countries will continue fluttering badly in the cesspool created by this utter foolishness!

democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion

The most important things to be acquired for freedom and democracy, are identity and dignity.