Democracy Quote by Maggie Gallagher

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

— Lord Acton

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of…

— Anonymous

Democracy is threatened by the inertia of good people, by the selfishness of most people, and by the evil designs of a few people.

— Anonymous

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.

— Barbara Tuchman

Two forms of government are favorable to the prevalence of falsehood and deceit. Under a Despotism, men are false, treacherous, and deceitful through fear,…

— Albert Pike

“Democracies accept certain risks that tyrannies do not”

— Bruce Fein

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

— Edmund Burke

“The defect of democracy is its tendency to put mediocrity into power; and there is no way of avoiding this except by limiting office…

— Will Durant

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

— James F. Cooper

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

— Noam Chomsky

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their…

— John Stuart Mill

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