Democracy Quote by Plato

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

— Will Durant

The surest and most insidious enemy of freedom is not dictatorship, but complacency.

— Natalie Angier

Dictatorships usually exist primarily because of the internal power distribution in the home country. The population and society are too weak to cause the…

— Gene Sharp

Democracy, which began by liberating man politically, has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorities and the deadly power…

— Ludwig Lewisohn

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

— Plato

“[...] dictatorship, the most extreme form of tyranny, can never lead to social liberation.”

— Noam Chomsky

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and…

— Stephen Vizinczey

Aspiring dictators sometimes win elections, and elected leaders sometimes govern badly and threaten their neighbors.History demonstrates that democracy usually follows good governance, not the…

— Rudy Giuliani

Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy.

— Aldous Huxley

In a dictatorship there is no choice, the elections are controlled, the police are the military, fear equals control, speech is suppressed, the economy…

— Alex Jones

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

— Ai Weiwei

History proves that dictatorships do not grow out of strong and successful governments, but out of weak and helpless ones. If by democratic methods…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt