Democracy Quote by Plato

These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all…

— Plato

Democracy not only requires equality but also an unshakable conviction in the value of each person, who is then equal

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

— Michael Sandel

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share a common life. What matters is that people of different backgrounds…

— Michael Sandel

...without equality there can be no democracy.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

— Eugene McCarthy

The essence of democracy is not that everyone makes and administers laws but that lawgivers and rulers should be dependent on the people's will…

— Ludwig von Mises

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity…

— Carl Schmitt

“What if freedom were the ability to make up our minds about what it was we wished to pursue, with whom we wished to…

— David Graeber

Democracy arose from mans thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.

— Aristotle

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

— Robert M. Hutchins