Democracy Quote by E. B. White

Democracy is reproached with saying that the majority is always right. But progress says that the minority is always right.

— Anonymous

Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule;…

— William Allen White

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient…

— Ben Fountain

It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.”

— John Hospers

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

— Omar Bongo

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

— Thomas Jefferson

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

“Surely the Board knows what democracy is. It is the line that forms on the right. It is the don’t in Don’t Shove. It…

— E. B. White

“Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

The trouble with democracy is that 50 percent of the voters are below average.

— Jeff Cooper

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken