Degenerates Quote by Friedrich August von Hayek

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

— Jerry Brown

Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I think Donald Trump believes in democracy and the right to change of power.

— Jan Brewer

In a democracy, everyone has a right to put forward one's views. But people resorting to violent demonstrations in the name of Dalits are…

— Yogi Adityanath

They're rights that should be endemic to any democracy. The right to a free quality education, from elementary school right through higher education. The…

— Henry Giroux

That instability is inherent in the nature of popular governments, I think very disputable … A representative democracy, where the right of election is…

— Alexander Hamilton

“...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress…

— Theodore Roosevelt

As believers in democracy we have not only the right but the duty to question existing mechanisms of, say, suffrage and to inquire whether…

— John Dewey

Democracy is not only the right to vote, it is also about not resorting to violence in order to reach political goals and respecting…

— Tzipi Livni

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

— Lee Harvey Oswald

I consider that, in a democracy, everyone has the right to decide. If people don't have the right to express what they feel, we…

— Gerard Pique

Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

— James Madison