Able Quote by L. Neil Smith

Democracy is not brute numbers; it is a genuine union of true individuals...the essence of democracy is creating. The technique of democracy is group…

— Mary Parker Follett

I understand democracy as something that gives the weak the same chance as the strong.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“No, democracy is not identical with the subordination of the minority to the majority. Democracy is a state which recogizes the subordination of the…

— Vlad Lenin

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest.

— Mahatma Gandhi

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of…

— Vladimir Lenin

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

Millions around the world increasingly see America not as a model of democracy but as relying solely on brute force

— Vladimir Putin

Democracy is premised, in some measure, on majority rule, and democracy is difficult in a situation of concentrated inequalities in which a large, impoverished…

— Samuel P. Huntington

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

— John Winthrop

Democracy is more cruel than wars or tyrants.

— Seneca the Younger

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest shall have the same opportunities as the strongest... no country in the world today…

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is stronger, is better, is more robust when people participate. We should want to encourage that.

— Nina Turner