Abandon Quote by Simon Mainwaring

“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree for the…

— Aberjhani

In a democracy, society must recognize that the individual has rights which are guaranteed, and the individual must recognize that he has responsibilities which…

— Harry Woodburn Chase

The practice of democracy means that I, one person, one humble person, nevertheless feel some responsibility if the officials for whose election I was…

— Clyde Kluckhohn

Democracy as a promise means that society can never be just enough and that the self-reflection and struggles that enable all members of the…

— Henry Giroux

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

— Norman Cousins

Democracy is such a framework that everyone has the right to live their lives, fix their goals, their aims, their dreams and the ways…

— Narendra Modi

For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to…

— Olof Palme

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged…

— George Bernard Shaw

Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.

— Karl Kraus

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

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

The proper response toward what we occasionally imagine to be democracy, methinks, is to retain one's self-respect by not participating in it.

— Fred Reed