Adjectives Quote by Garry Kasparov

Democracy has become, unless I mistake, a kind of test or shibboleth, by which we try men and measures; and this is the same…

— James Vila Blake

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

— Jean-Bertrand Aristide

There are a couple of ways to use the word democracy, and the way that I think is productive is to think about democracy…

— Masha Gessen

“In the case of a word like democracy, not only is there no agreed definition, but the attempt to make one is resisted from…

— Mick Hume

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

— Plato

I cannot too often repeat that Democracy is a word the real gist of which still sleeps, quite unawakened, notwithstanding the resonance and the…

— Walt Whitman

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

— Jeff Cooper

You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy.

— Malcolm X

I am not concerned with dodging the odium of the word. The proposed definition of democracy is socialistic . . . (democracy) should be…

— Herbert Croly

Did you, too, O friend, suppose democracy was only for elections, for politics, and for a party name? I say democracy is only of…

— Walt Whitman

The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

— Molly Ivins

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon