Democracy Quote by Aristotle

Democracy arose from mans thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free,…

— Aristotle

“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out of the…

— Will Durant

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The democratic rule that all men are equal is sometimes confused with the quite opposite idea that all men are the same and that…

— Horace Kallen

...without equality there can be no democracy.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

The love of democracy is that of equality.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

— Robert M. Hutchins

It is the life of democracy to favor equality.

— Christian Nestell Bovee

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

— Michael Sandel

A democracy depends on the full integration of women into society, especially on seeing to it that they have equal access to the same…

— Hillary Clinton