Democracy Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy generally monopolizes and concentrates power.

— Lord Acton

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

— Aristotle

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

— Madeleine Albright

Democracy is not an easy form of government, because it is never final; it is a living, changing organism, with a continuous shifting and…

— Ilka Chase

Democracy cannot long survive when the people permit their lives to be dominated - economically or politically - by a powerful few.

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

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

Democracy is a process, not a static condition. It is becoming, rather than being. It can be easily lost, but is never finally won.

— William H. Hastie

If people, whether they are conservative or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process, and are taking…

— Barack Obama

The fabric of democracy is always fragile everywhere because it depends on the will of citizens to protect it, and when they become scared,…

— Margaret Atwood

Democracy cannot flourish half rich and half poor, any more than it can flourish half free and half slave.

— Felix Rohatyn