Cognition Quote by Mehmet Murat Ildan

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient…

— Ben Fountain

Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.”

— John Hospers

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course,…

— Joseph Campbell

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

My big idea is that democracy can only work properly if you have truly representative people at the table.

— Pramila Jayapal

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

— John Simon

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

— John Winthrop

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

The case for democracy is that voters in the aggregate will make better decisions than a lone monarch or dictator would.

— Max Boot