Democracy is the power of equal votes for unequal minds

Under the principle of equality, we should get as close to respecting equal votes of every citizen as we can, given our constitutional structure.…

— Lawrence Lessig

Russian democracy is the power of the Russian people with their own traditions of national self-government, and not the realisation of standards foisted on…

— Vladimir Putin

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

— Lalu Prasad Yadav

You know, we're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected.

— Robert Caro

No government really rooted in limited, parliamentary democracy should have the power to make its citizens fight and kill and die in a war…

— Bill Clinton

“And that brings me to my definition of power, which is simply this: the capacity to make others do what you would have them…

— Eric Liu

“Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the people, remember;…

— B.F. Skinner

“In other words, the government of the democracy is the only one under which the power which lays on taxes escapes the payment of…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

If you compare the United States with Europe, my view is that what happened in Europe is that the church became deeply distrusted by…

— John Rawls

But the desire of obtaining the advantages, and of escaping the burthens, of political society, is a perpetual and inexhaustible source of discord; nor…

— Edward Gibbon

Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If…

— Eva Figes

Cruel and paradoxical though it undoubtedly is, the record shows that yje most succesful 20th century monarchs have been those who were not actually…

— David Cannadine

Culture implies all which gives the mind possession of its own powers, as languages to the critic, telescope to the astronomer. Culture alters the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to…

— Shaka

O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs…

— William Shakespeare