Democratic Quote by Salvador Dali

Sometimes the former forces are in the ascendance, and "democratic governance" is eroded, though anyone familiar with intellectual history would expect that the slogans…

— Noam Chomsky

I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Coherently democratic authority carries the conviction that true discipline does not exist in the muteness of those who have been silenced but in the…

— Paulo Freire

The notion that the records of government are the property of the people is radically democratic, but it is broken in practice.

— Ryan Shapiro

“In practice the democratic ‘revolutionary’ type of discipline is more reliable than might be expected.”

— George Orwell

“The defect of democracy is its tendency to put mediocrity into power; and there is no way of avoiding this except by limiting office…

— Will Durant

it is a testament to the strength and purity of the democratic sentiment in the country, that the republic has not been overthrown by…

— Harriet Martineau

“I count it a mistake of our mistaken democracy, that every man who can read print is allowed to believe that he can read…

— D.H. Lawrence

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

— Noam Chomsky

Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.

— Ismail Kadaré

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

— Frank Herbert

“Present-day democratic structures just cannot collect and process the relevant data fast enough, and most voters don’t understand biology and cybernetics well enough to…

— Yuval Noah Harari