Citizens Quote by Plato

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of…

— Vladimir Lenin

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that…

— Aristotle

Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the…

— Vladimir Lenin

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

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

— Aristotle

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment.

— Aristotle

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

Democracy means doing whatever you want without asking permission of anybody but your boss, your doctor, your lawyer, your landlord, your bank, your city,…

— Sam Levenson

Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.

— Keith Preston

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 is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

— Aristotle

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

— Oscar Wilde