Democratic Quote by Anthony Trollope

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of…

— Anonymous

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

— Plato

Democracy is better than tyranny.

— Periander

Tyranny seldom announces itself...In fact, a tyranny may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a democratically elected one, may be tyrannical.

— Joseph Sobran

“Tyranny is a form of perversion. We come to love it. Every government is a tyranny to a degree, and the more evil it…

— Geoff Ryman

People in this country don't realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it…

— Ken Cuccinelli

“The tyranny of a majority can be just as cruel as the tyranny of a single dictator, depending on the degree of enlightenment or…

— John Hospers

The scum of the People are most Tyrannical when they get the Power, and treat their Betters with the greatest Insolence.

— Mary Astell

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

— Lord Acton

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.

— Maggie Gallagher

Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted…

— Allan Bloom