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Democracy Quotes by Walter Lippmann
- In a democracy, the opposition is not only tolerated as constitutional, but must be maintained because it is indispensable.
- What the public does is not to express its opinions but to align itself for or against a proposal. If that theory is accepted, we…
- For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only…
- The principle of majority rule is the mildest form in which the force of numbers can be exercised. It is a pacific substitute for civil…
- No amount of charters, direct primaries, or short ballots will make a democracy out of an illiterate people.
- The news of the days it reaches the newspaper office is an incredible medley of fact, propaganda, rumor, suspicion, clues, hopes, and fears, and the…
- Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.
- The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.
- Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to…
- Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate the…
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