Democracy Quote by Charles Bukowski

A democracy is a compromise by its nature. It's not a dictatorship.

— Jamie Dimon

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

— Alan Coren

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and…

— Stephen Vizinczey

Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is…

— Saul Alinsky

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear.

— Alan Coren

One doesn't want one's democracy to behave like a dictatorial or fascistic police. One doesn't.

— Tom Stoppard

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a…

— Benito Mussolini

Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the…

— Vladimir Lenin

The transition from dictatorship to democracy is always very difficult, and if you read a history of any country that went through this, it…

— Wael Ghonim

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy…

— Alex Jones

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or…

— Aristotle