Democracy Quote by Ronald Syme

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

— Woodrow Wilson

I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.

— Thucydides

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name . . . Monarchy . . . has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under.…

— Adrian Goldsworthy

“Every empire, however, tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control…

— Edward W. Said

“I heard the Empire has a tyrannical and repressive government!" "What form of government is that?" said Ponder Stibbons. "A tautology," said the Dean,…

— Terry Pratchett

“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“the very definition of a Republic, is "an Empire of Laws, and not of men.”

— Charles River Editors

A democracy exists whenever those who are free and are not well-off, being in the majority, are in sovereign control of government, an oligarchy…

— Aristotle

“As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. I am afraid that's how it works in a democracy.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name and conveys the impression of bringing equal rights to all through equal laws, but its results are seen…

— Cassius Dio

“One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship.”

— George Orwell

“Thus Tyrants could practice, in a sense, “democracy.” But now “democracy” can do the same work without any tyranny other than her own.”

— C.S. Lewis