Country Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America,…

— Benjamin Spock

People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their…

— Donald Tsang

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy.

— Daniel Suarez

The modern world is reversing the old virtues of authority. They aimed deliberately to make men unworldly. They did not aim to found society…

— Walter Lippmann

Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or…

— Anonymous

There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country.

— Hillary Clinton

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different…

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

— Herbert Croly

I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

— P. J. O'Rourke