Citizens Quote by Plato

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

— Karl Kraus

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among…

— Plato

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

— Plato

“Citizens no longer understand democracy to mean a condition of political equality, in which one person gets one vote, and every individual is no…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Democracy involves that old-fashioned thing called working it out.

— Peggy Noonan

Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

Democracy is an extraordinary adventure. It's difficult, full of daring and risk and danger. But it's the greatest gift we have.

— Jon Voight

Democracy is a device that ensures the people shall be governed no better than they deserve.

— Anthony Scaramucci

democracy ... is not something that occurs overnight. It is not a gift delivered on a golden tray. Democracy is a long process of…

— Shirin Ebadi

The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is…

— Eugene Jarecki