Clear Quote by Bertrand de Jouvenel

I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the…

— Walt Whitman

Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people will be heard and their latent wisdom will prevail

— Thomas Carlyle

The progress of democracy seems irresistible, because it is the most uniform, the most ancient and the most permanent tendency which is to be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The paradox of democracy is that its stability is born of its openness to upheaval through elections, legislation, and social action. Disruption is built…

— Condoleezza Rice

“democracy is a see-saw between complete chaos and tolerable confusion”

— Rohinton Mistry

Democracy is self-creating coherence.

— Mary Parker Follett

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

Democracy have been the name. Autocracy have been the practice.

— Terry Mark

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

— Woodrow Wilson

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

— Vandana Shiva

A pure Democracy, by which I mean a Society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the Government in person,…

— James Madison