Ability Quote by Daniel Suarez

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

— P. J. O'Rourke

Human Beings are just good enough to make democracy possible...just bad enough to make it neccessary.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani

Democracy is not a good that people can enjoy without trouble. It is, on the contrary, a treasure that must be daily defended and…

— Ludwig von Mises

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell

Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

Democracy is an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism,…

— Fran Lebowitz

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

We have advanced far enough to say that democracy is a way of life. We have yet to realize that it is a way…

— John Dewey

Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of…

— Aldous Huxley

Democracy is a device that ensures the people shall be governed no better than they deserve.

— Anthony Scaramucci

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

— Sydney J. Harris