Democracy Quote by Jose Saramago

There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for…

— Theodore Roosevelt

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're…

— Ramsey Clark

Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of…

— Mark Twain

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

— Andrew Johnson

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system…

— Jose Saramago

Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between the plutocracy…

— H. L. Mencken

“Because it is a curious challenge for western man to distinguish between aristocracy and plutocracy, it will be his unhappy fate to struggle under…

— Tom Fahy

This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy is just a word. You have to give it meaning. The US is not a democracy. Most Americans do not vote. We haven't…

— Ramsey Clark

We always come back to the same misunderstanding. The Jews because of their spirit of revolt, their exclusiveness and the Messianic tendencies which animate…

— Leon V. DePoncins

I can't agree that what we're seeing is a matter of the American bourgeoisie confronting workers everywhere. It's more like the international plutocracy eliminating…

— Hendrik Hertzberg

Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth.

— Theodore Roosevelt