Democracy Quote by James Connolly

Democracy, in its best state, is but the politics of Bedlam; while kept chained, its thoughts are frantic, but when it breaks loose, it…

— Fisher Ames

A simple democracy is the devil's own government.

— Benjamin Rush

“The only thing politicians serve is their own interest. Public servant has morphed into private serpent.”

— Jarod Kintz

As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy passes into despotism.

— Plato

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The essence of democracy is that you can kick people out.

— Gyles Brandreth

“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get…

— Steven Pinker

Undoubtedly, a democratic state without an alternative is a danger to democracy itself.

— Reuven Rivlin