Arguing Quote by Anonymous

Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits…

— Henry Louis Mencken

Democracy is just a reflection of our morals and the things that we believe.

— David Harsanyi

“Democracy is popular because of the illusion of choice and participation it provides, but when you live in a society in which most people’s…

— Gavin Nascimento

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

— Hillary Clinton

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you…

— Narendra Modi

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of…

— Eli Pariser

democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long process of…

— Shirin Ebadi

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs…

— Richard von Weizsaecker

So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have…

— Pankaj Mishra

The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

We talk about democracy as if it's a safeguard for individual rights... Instead, it's become our way of intruding on rights, allegedly in the…

— Jonathan D. Morris

My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.

— Abbie Hoffman