Democracy Quote by Felix Rohatyn

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Political democracy cannot flourish under all economic conditions. Democracy requires an economic system which supports the political ideals of liberty and equality for all.…

— Mortimer Adler

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority…

— Aristotle

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

— Isaac Asimov

We cannot run a democracy without a strong middle class.

— Elizabeth Warren

“In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority…

— Aristotle

Without an educated populace, democracy cannot sustain itself.

— Phylicia Rashad

Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.

— Democritus

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

— Karl Kraus

Democracy no longer works for the poor if politicians treat them as a separate race.

— Frank Field

As recognized since ancient times, the coexistence of very rich and very poor leads to two possibilities, neither a happy one. The rich can…

— Angus Deaton