Democracy Quote by G.K. Chesterton

Thus our democracy was from an early period the most aristocratic, and our aristocracy the most democratic.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“it seems to me that the English aristocracy is not only the type, but is the crown and flower of all actual aristocracies; it…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and…

— H.L. Mencken

My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

— Victor Hugo

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Aristocrats don't notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— John Hospers

To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.

— George Bernard Shaw

When I saw how the European Union was developing, it was very obvious what they had in mind was not democratic. In Britain, you…

— Tony Benn

“This complete ignorance of the realities, this innocent view of mankind, is what, in my opinion, constitutes the truly aristocratic. For”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“It is a bit rich for the Brits to suppress, exploit, imprison, torture and maim a people for 200 years and then celebrate the…

— Shashi Tharoor

“I believe in aristocracy, though -- if that is the right word, and if a democrat may use it. Not an aristocracy of power,…

— E.M. Forster