Degenerates Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

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

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of…

— Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

— E. B. White

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

— John Hospers

“Democracy means that people respect the rights of others, including the right to be different.”

— Jerome Nathanson

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

— Oscar Wilde

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

And that is my definition of democracy, the right to be in a minority and not be suppressed

— Lee Harvey Oswald

“DEMOCRACY is a form of leading state in which the right and power" must be in the hands of the people and absolutely must…

— Khem Veasna

Democracy is "government of, by and for the people".

— Abraham Lincoln

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

— Dave Barry