Democracy Quote by Gardner R. Dozois

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood

Mobs and dictators were made for each other, and when mobs appear, dictators will soon flourish.

— Jaron Lanier

“There is no basis for democracy except in a dogma about the divine origin of man. That is a perfectly simple fact which the…

— G.K. Chesterton

“Democracy is a most accommodating and charming form of government, full of variety and diversity,”

— William De Witt Hyde

Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power…

— Ludwig Lewisohn

“The individualism of the human organism is modern holism. Democracy is an attempt to replicate the political master's social division of labor in every…

— Mitchell Heisman

All deductions having been made, democracy has done less harm, and more good, than any other form of government. It gave to human existence…

— Will Durant

In my view this is not democracy, but a zoo… It was exactly what we expected, but not on that scale nor in that…

— Alexander Lukashenko

Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And that slavery…

— H. L. Mencken

“Democracy in books is, for the people, by the people, democracy on street is rule of the apes in a land of sheep.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has…

— John Adams

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

— Aristotle