Democracy Quote by Naomi Klein

Government has within it a tendency to abuse its powers.

— John C. Calhoun

“. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with…

— Jeremy Bentham

The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse…

— Ben Shapiro

“Democracy, we now know, is more than periodic elections in some countries, such elections have been used to legitimize essentially authoritarian regimes and deprive…

— Joseph E. Stiglitz

Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.

— Mahatma Gandhi

The more powerful government becomes, the more abuses it commits and the more lies it must tell.

— James Bovard

“Anti-government rhetoric appears to offer a vision of greater efficiency, self-reliance, and personal freedom. (For obvious reasons, it also usually enjoys greater financial backing…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

The democratic state can sometimes abuse its power as much as those who seek to destroy it abuse fundamental rights and democratic practices.

— David Blunkett

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

— Jorge Luis Borges

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can…

— George Washington

“From the point of view of our present rulers, therefore, the only genuine dangers are the splitting-off of a new group of able, under-employed,…

— George Orwell

“Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.”

— Gordy Slack