Democracy Quote by C.S. Lewis

“The real reason for democracy is just the reverse. Mankind is so fallen that no man can be trusted with unchecked power over his…

— C.S. Lewis

“Keep in mind that democracy merely gives power to the people; it does not ensure that power will be used wisely or humanely.”

— Rodney Stark

“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 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 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

“I am a democrat [proponent of democracy] because I believe in the Fall of Man. I think most people are democrats for the opposite…

— C.S. Lewis

“Democracy is nonconformity; it is mutual loyalty, even when we have to attack one another's ideas - ideas, which, because they are always human,…

— Joost A. M. Meerloo

“The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no”

— Colum McCann

“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.”

— Aldous Huxley

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

— Anna Jae

“I like the idea of democracy. You have to have someone everyone distrusts," said Brutha. "That way, everyone's happy.”

— Terry Pratchett

“Voting isn’t the most we can do, but it is the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one. Still,”

— Gloria Steinem