Believe Quote by Martha Nussbaum

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

— Plato

Democracy means that people can say what they want to. All the people. It means that they can vote as they wish. All the…

— Dalton Trumbo

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a…

— Benito Mussolini

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.

— Dave Barry

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

— Vandana Shiva

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as…

— Noam Chomsky

Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

— Jeff Cooper

Ultimately, freedom and democracy are stronger than fear and tyranny.

— Gijs de Vries

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy has two excesses to avoid: the spirit of inequality, which leads to an aristocracy, or to the government of a single individual; and…

— Baron de Montesquieu

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon