Democracy Quote by Mitchell Heisman

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged…

— George Bernard Shaw

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 that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It…

— Brian Eno

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

— James Russell Lowell

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

— James Madison

Democracy arose from mans thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

Democracy is not merely a form of Government. It is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience. It is essentially an…

— B. R. Ambedkar

“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the…

— Aberjhani

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

— Plato