Democracy Quote by Aristotle

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy…

— Aristotle

Democracy is one person, one vote and a full discussion of the issues that affect us. Oligarchy is billionaires buying elections, voter suppression and…

— Bernie Sanders

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood

Democracy is morose, and runs to anarchy.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among…

— Plato

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle withing which…

— Will Durant

“The paradox of democracy is that its stability is born of its openness to upheaval through elections, legislation, and social action. Disruption is built…

— Condoleezza Rice

Democracy is a life, and involves continual struggle.

— Robert M. La Follette, Sr

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

— Madeleine Albright

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

— Mahatma Gandhi