Democracy Quote by Plato

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 has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.

— Jeff Cooper

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

— Brian Eno

I would say democracy once meant an organizational society and a state, in which the individual citizen is - feels - responsible, and acts…

— Erich Fromm

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 an interesting, even laudable, notion and there is no question but that when compared to Communism, which is too dull, or Fascism,…

— Fran Lebowitz

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

— H. L. Mencken

[For business after WWII ] democracy means getting people to regard government as an alien force that's robbing them and oppressing them, not as…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Oscar Wilde

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

— John Winthrop