Democracy Quote by John Buchan

“There was something called democracy. As though men were more than physico-chemically equal.”

— Aldous Huxley

“It is, indeed, difficult to conceive how men who have entirely given up the habit of self-government should succeed in making a proper choice…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out of the…

— Will Durant

“Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without greatness. Those who possess greatness are not in politics.”

— Albert Camus

“Sometimes the fate of an entire nation can hinge on the integrity of one man.”

— Mark Bowden

“Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness...”

— Albert Camus

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had…

— Vilfredo Pareto

“This is the cycle of a dynamic society. Equality is never a final state, democracy never a stable equilibrium: they are processes, they are…

— Christopher Hayes

“The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also,Government is for the living, and not for the dead;…

— Thomas Paine

“The principle of equality, which makes men independent of each other, gives them a habit and a taste for following, in their private actions,…

— Alexis de Tocqueville