Democracy Quote by Alan Dean

“Some of the most horrific dictators rose to power amidst chaos.” I”

— Donna Augustine

“there are men in politics whose greatest aim is to look exalted in their own eyes.”

— Phyllis T. Smith

“I was not going to stand before the nation as prime minister and cry for myself. I was not going to let anyone conclude…

— Julia Gillard

“You disintegrated into the recriminations, the headlines, the pictures. You scattered yourself into proofs, warnings, suspicions, arrests. You rode out into the dark outrage…

— Jonathan Lee

“But what is the core of the political? Men killing men on the largest scale in broad daylight and with the greatest serenity.”

— Leo Strauss

“There is no one more sinister or dangerous than an ambitious yet characterless Politician!”

— Robert Anthony Kerr

“She had the satisfaction, so beloved of dictators, of a permanent state of emergency.”

— Azar Nafisi

“The most perilous moment for a bad government is one when it seeks to mend its ways.”

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“All those things happened before the reforms that ended bureaucratic practices. And those reforms made it possible for decisive men to take charge and…

— Andreas Christensen

“Here I must add that, in each social crisis, of all scaffolds, the political one is the most abominable, the most fatal, the most…

— Victor Hugo

“He was driven by some deeper urge to smash the one thing left in the world that could discipline him: the government.”

— Jane Mayer

“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.”

— Aldous Huxley