Break Quote by Barack Obama

Our public life withers when only the most extreme voices get attention. Most of all, democracy breaks down when the average person feels their…

— Barack Obama

Democracy sometimes appears paralyzed by those who take advantage of its freedoms in order to abuse them for undemocratic ends.

— David Pryce-Jones

“Democracy rests on the principle of majority rule, yet it’s eternally coupled with the tolerance of dissenting views. However, ongoing competitive party politics has…

— Ramkrishna Guru

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

— Robert A. Heinlein

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

— William H. Hastie

When a mob of institutions decides there is only one way forward, democracy loses meaning.

— Anna Paulina Luna

You can have a broad popular democracy movement and have it end being taken over by the most vicious people and the result is…

— Donald Rumsfeld

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed,…

— H. L. Mencken

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