Democracy Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

The love of democracy is that of equality.

— Baron de Montesquieu

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

— Aristotle

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

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

— Michael Sandel

“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 has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.

— George Hamilton

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity…

— Carl Schmitt

“Nobody takes democracy or justice seriously, we are all aware of their corrupted nature, but we participate in them, we display our belief in…

— Slavoj Žižek

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle