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Democracy Quotes by Plato
- Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
- These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike…
- Democracy passes into despotism.
- In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.
- Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.
- Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way…
- And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile mob, does not withhold his…
- And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others,…
- A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!
- Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like…
- Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.
- A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the…
- Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.
- Democracy, which is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike
More Democracy Quotes
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- Jeans represent democracy in fashion. — Giorgio Armani
- I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings of all… — Richard Armitage
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States. — Karen Armstrong
- A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership. — Chinua Achebe
- Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing… — Chinua Achebe
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood