Democracy Quote by Aldous Huxley

Democracy is a danger to any powerful group.

— Noam Chomsky

“on Democracies: "there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies…

— James Madison

A pure democracy can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will be felt by a majority, and…

— James Madison

The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be…

— Finn Jones

When you are subverting the power of government, that's a fundamentally dangerous thing to democracy.

— Edward Snowden

Democracy is a bundle of rights and freedoms wrestled from the powerful. Our rulers only surrender their power when compelled to - when the…

— Owen Jones

Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they…

— James Madison

“From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small…

— James Madison

“Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be”

— James Russell Lowell

“Democracies are not lucky. They do not attract civic-minded leaders by chance. Rather, they attract survival-oriented leaders who understand that, given their dependence on…

— Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.

— Maggie Kuhn

There is a danger in democracy itself.

— Danny Kaye