Democracy Quote by Robert Morrison MacIver

If democracy is a means rather than an end, its limits must be determined in the light of the purpose we want it to…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

But democracy is by no means a limit one may not overstep; it is only one of the stages in the course of development…

— Vladimir Lenin

The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.

— Bruno Kreisky

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely…

— Herbert Croly

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

— Elizabeth Drew

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

— Herbert Croly

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

— Iskander Mirza

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

— James Weldon Johnson

All democracies are based on the proposition that power is very dangerous and that it is extremely important not to let any one person…

— Aldous Huxley

Democracy is indispensable, not because it renders superfluous the conquest of political power by the proletariat, but, on the contrary, because it makes this…

— Rosa Luxemburg

Democracy is not what we have. It is what we do.

— Frances Moore Lappé

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

— Sydney J. Harris