Political power Quote by Fareed Zakaria

Legitimacy is the elixir of political power.

— Fareed Zakaria

“Legitimacy involves the capacity of a political system to engender and maintain the belief that existing political institutions are the most appropriate or proper…

— Seymour Martin Lipset

“Political liberty—that is, the ability of societies to rule themselves—does not depend only on the degree to which a society can mobilize opposition to…

— Francis Fukuyama

“It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won,…

— Jon Meacham

“A great deal of democratic enthusiasm descends from the ideas of people like Rousseau, who believed in democracy because they thought mankind so wise…

— C. S. Lewis

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Thus, it is a political axiom that power follows property. But it is now a historical fact that the means of production are fast…

— Aldous Huxley

“There can be no real political democracy unless there is something approaching an economic democracy,” he wrote. “There can be neither political nor industrial…

— Ganesh Sitaraman

“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 gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.

— Walter E. Williams

You can define how strong a democracy is by how its government treats ... the child of the state.

— Lemn Sissay

“Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the people, remember;…

— B.F. Skinner