Bottom Quote by H. L. Mencken

Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top - it's not going to work.

— Mahathir Mohamad

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

— Daniel Suarez

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

— C. V. Wedgwood

Democracy is the best form of the worst type of government

— Winston Churchill

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have.

— Winston Churchill

We certainly would not want to have the same kind of democracy as they have in Iraq, I can tell you quite honestly.

— Vladimir Putin

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

— Seneca the Younger

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

— Robert A. Heinlein

If, in a democracy, the cognition of the majority is not much better than the cognition of the sheep, democracy will surely fail.

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

— John Winthrop