Democracy Quote by Benjamin Todd Jealous

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

— Anonymous

Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize…

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

— B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and…

— Ilka Chase

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

— John Dewey

Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy,…

— Aristotle

Democracy in some ways is a very illogical political system. When you win an election, you have to preserve the institutions that would make…

— Anne Applebaum

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

Democracy doesn't just consist of holding elections.

— Brent Scowcroft

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

— John Dewey

Democracy requires you to learn how to lose as well as how to exercise power when you win. And that requires restraint all around.…

— David Frum

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their…

— Donald Tsang