2,003 Quotes About Democracy

One politician can not make a government. He needs accomplices.

A voter always knows how much to vote for.

Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.

Hear no evil. Speak no evil. See no evil. Read the newspapers.

Democracy is not doing what I want. It's also letting others do what I want.

The unspoken rule of democracy : three stupid ones will always outvote two smart ones.

We have distant democracy, well suited to a distant penocracy, well suited to serve a large-scale society using taximeters to control the price of all acts.

If Santa Claus was a politician, he would only put billboards promising the best Christmas presents.

Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!