Definitions Quote by Jeff Cooper

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts…

— Erich Fromm

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 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 means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city,…

— Sam Levenson

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

— Keith Preston

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged…

— George Bernard Shaw

My definition of democracy is - A form and a method of Government whereby revolutionary changes in the social life are brought about without…

— Anonymous

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

— Dave Barry

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

— Oscar Wilde

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell