Democracy Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

— George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

— John Allen Fraser

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

— B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

— Aristotle

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that…

— Aristotle

Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the…

— Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative -…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

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

— Plato

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

— Aung San Suu Kyi

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

— Abraham Lincoln

Democracy is a device that ensures the people shall be governed no better than they deserve.

— Anthony Scaramucci

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

— John Dewey