Conditions Quote by H. L. Mencken

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

— Plato

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

— C. V. Wedgwood

Democracy is the most realistic way for diverse peoples to resolve their differences, and share power, and heal social divisions without violence or repression.

— Condoleezza Rice

The best example of democracy I can recall is five wolves sitting down to dinner with one sheep.

— Charles De Montesquieu

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

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

— Jaron Lanier

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various…

— Bertrand Russell

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their…

— Donald Tsang

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

— Aristotle

“All this was built on the firm foundation of primate bonding patterns. If the pattern broke down at the bottom, it gave a rabble.…

— Gardner R. Dozois

Democracy depends on people speaking out, and in times of great crisis, on people creating a commotion.

— Howard Zinn

In a Democracy, the real rulers are the dexterous manipulators of votes, with their placemen, the mechanics who so skillfully operate the hidden springs…

— Konstantin Pobedonostsev