Democracy Quote by Barbara Ehrenreich

“Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.”

— Jack Lessenberry

“Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.”

— John Hospers

“For the minority, what else is democracy than dictatorship?”

— Anna Jae

“Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

“Literate, affluent, self-confident people do not like living under either dictatorship or chaos. As more nations move into modernity and find themselves populated with…

— Oliver H. Woshinsky

“Democracy has a habit of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the powers-that-be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers-that-ought-to-be”

— James Russell Lowell

“Today the United States is by far the most unequal rich democracy in the world.”

— David Cay Johnston

“Democracy is about one person, one vote. It’s about all of us coming together to determine the future of our country. It is not…

— Bernie Sanders

“A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.”

— Pope John Paul II

“Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the people, remember;…

— B.F. Skinner

“Democracy in a country where the public is uneducated is no different from having a dictatorship or an elected king.”

— O.Z. Livaneli

“I have stated that a democracy is always two years behind the dictator.”

— Winston Churchill