Democracy Quote by David H. Maister

“Several times the ancient Greeks attempted to utilize democratic mass participation in governing their city-states, but each time it resulted in tyranny. As the…

— Ben Carson

The Greek city-states politicised citizen and subject, creating institutions that were way ahead of anything in China or India. The politicians of antiquity exercised…

— Tariq Ali

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this…

— David Graeber

Greece isn't a democracy now it's run through a troika - three foreign officials that fly into Athens airport and tell the Greeks what…

— Nigel Farage

In general, democracy and individualism have advanced in spite of and often against specific economic interest. Both democracy and individualism have been based upon…

— John Ralston Saul

Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in…

— Barack Obama

“Athens, or Greece in general, was a virile world; like the Roman Empire. But I can't understand the idea that it is the greatest…

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“There Pericles says that the essence of the Athenian democracy is that any citizen, regardless of class or profession, should be able to take…

— Thomas McEvilley

“Political success in Athens seemed to depend on having a party, and there seemed now to be no party with whom an honorable man…

— Irwin Edman

"Democracy" means nothing else other than, "rule of the people", in Greek. There is nothing democratic about the political concepts of the United States…

— Andre Vltchek

“We honor the Greeks because in their art, literature, philosophy and civic history we discern the early stirrings of our own ideals—rationalism, humanism, democracy—which…

— Caroline Alexander

“The history of ancient Greece showed that, in a democracy, emotion dominates reason to a greater extent than in any other political system, thus…

— B.H. Liddell Hart