Arabian Quote by Ambrose Bierce

Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

— Frank Herbert

“But even democracy ruins itself by excess—of democracy. Its basic principle is the equal right of all to hold office and determine public policy.…

— Will Durant

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

A nation riven by factions, in which the minority has no hope of ever becoming a majority, or in which some group knows it…

— Henry A. Kissinger

Corrupt citizens breed corrupt rulers, and it is the mob who finally decides when virtue shall die.

— Taylor Caldwell

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

— Anonymous

In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but…

— Jean Bodin

In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the majority will…

— Edmund Burke

“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of…

— Vladimir Lenin

Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is…

— Malcolm X

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by…

— Lord Acton