Democracy Quote by C.S. Lewis

“A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise…

— C. S. Lewis

“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

“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

“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

Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no…

— C. S. Lewis

“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”

— Zaman Ali

“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

“You study any pretty democracy, from the ancient Greeks forward, and you'll see that the only way each system functions is with a working…

— Chuck Palahniuk

“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.…

— Owen Wister

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

— Aristotle

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

— Aristotle

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has…

— John Adams