Democracy Quote by Louis de Bernières

“Americans became so thoroughly democratic that much of the period's political activity, beginning with the Constitution, was diverted to finding means and devices to…

— Gordon S. Wood

“The most effective way to revive democracy is to do what we have always done; transfer decision-making from the unaccountable institutions: monarchs, priestly castes,…

— Aaron Nordquist

“Democracy is a treasure which no one will ever discover by deliberate search. But in continuing our search, in laboring indefatigably to discover the…

— Christopher L. Hayes

“Democracy ceases to be so if it is governed by permanent majoritarian identities of any kind.”

— Romila Thapar

“We live in a time that demands a discourse of both critique and possibility, one that recognizes that without an informed citizenry, collective struggle,…

— Henry A. Giroux

“Democracy: stored up in heaven; but unhappily has not yet been communicated to us.”

— Bernard R. Crick

“Voter apathy was, and will remain the greatest threat to democracy.”

— Hazen Pingree

Democracy no longer means what it was meant to. It has been taken back into the workshop. Each of its institutions has been hollowed…

— Arundhati Roy

“Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

“was calculated to kill off democracy.”

— Roger Scruton

“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”

— Zaman Ali

“...the majority in a democracy has no more right to tyrannize over a minority than, under a different system, the latter would to oppress…

— Theodore Roosevelt