Democracy Quote by Elizabeth Drew

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

— Eugene McCarthy

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy, in any rational form, also imposes conditions on majority rule. That's what the Bill of Rights is about, for example.

— Noam Chomsky

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development…

— Vladimir Lenin

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

— Lord Acton

Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city,…

— Sam Levenson

“Democracy is nonconformity; it is mutual loyalty, even when we have to attack one another's ideas - ideas, which, because they are always human,…

— Joost A. M. Meerloo

“Democracy requires citizens to see things from one another's point of view, but instead were more and more enclosed in our own bubbles. Democracy…

— Eli Pariser

Democracy, despite its limitations, is in the end the only way to ensure that policies do not simply benefit the privileged few.

— Ha-Joon Chang