Democracy Quote by Karl Popper

ANARCHY, or the government of each man by himself or as the English say, self -government.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny,…

— Aristotle

Democracy gives the aura of legitimacy to acts that would otherwise be considered tyranny.

— Walter E. Williams

...any form of government that required the repression, imprisonment, and execution of those who disagreed with it was certainly not a government of the…

— Vince Flynn

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

— Plato

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself.…

— John Adams

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

— Jeff Cooper

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

— Anna Brownell Jameson

A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the…

— Theodore Parker

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

In my opinion, using different kinds of epithets and adjectives in connection with the word democracy is a sign of mere hypocrisy, to put…

— Garry Kasparov

Most of wars or military coups or invasions are done in the name of democracy against democracy.

— Eduardo Galeano