Faith Quote by Slavoj Žižek

“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

“And so, when the chips are down, I must say, though not without a sense of repugnance, that if you wish to show your…

— Dag Solstad

“In a real democracy, what matters is not just the outcome but the way that citizens participate in a debate about the future. That…

— Mick Hume

“Keep in mind that democracy merely gives power to the people; it does not ensure that power will be used wisely or humanely.”

— Rodney Stark

“From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small…

— James Madison

“Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.”

— John Hospers

“Democracy is...the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.”

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

Democracy is corrupted not only when the spirit of equality is corrupted, but likewise when they fall into a spirit of extreme equality.

— Baron de Montesquieu

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

— Chrystia Freeland

“Democracy requires accountability and consent of the governed, which is only possible if citizens know what is being done in their name.”

— Glenn Greenwald

“Democracy is an excellent way of ensuring that nothing much gets done. There are always interests that might get trampled upon [and no elected…

— Edward De Bono

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche