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Democratic institutions, even in the oldest operating democracy in the world, are anything but perfect.

— David Remnick

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

— Noam Chomsky

You cannot have democracy without the institutions. You cannot have a democracy that is built on the moods of self-interested people.

— Bashar al-Assad

Even when you cherish democratic ideals, it is never easy to turn them into effective democratic institutions. This process will take decades.

— Condoleezza Rice

Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of…

— Aldous Huxley

I have long been convinced that institutions purely democratic must, sooner or later, destroy liberty or civilization, or both.

— Anonymous

Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding…

— Albert Einstein

Democratic regimes may be defined as those in which, every now and then, the people are given the illusion of being sovereign, while the…

— Benito Mussolini

The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at…

— Yair Lapid

“Our institutions are too big; they represent not the best but the worst characteristics of human beings. By submitting to huge hierarchies of power,…

— Edward Abbey

Democratic institutions generally give men a lofty notion of their country and themselves.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“The political institutions of a society are a key determinant of the outcome of this game. They are the rules that govern incentives in…

— Daron Acemoğlu