Democracy Quote by Terry Pratchett

“When trouble arise among faraway people, we remain tempted to hide behind the principle of national sovereignty, to "mind our own business" when it…

— Madeleine Albright

“Democracy is a most accommodating and charming form of government, full of variety and diversity,”

— William De Witt Hyde

“A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.”

— Pope John Paul II

“But a democracy is bound in the end to be obscene, for it is composed of myriad disunited fragments, each fragment assuming to itself…

— D.H. Lawrence

“Democracy, when unchecked, often slips into anarchy—freedom without discipline, a blindness disguised as liberty.”

— Mwanandeke Kindembo

“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

“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”

— Zaman Ali

“Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.”

— Henry A. Giroux

“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

“Democracy: stored up in heaven; but unhappily has not yet been communicated to us.”

— Bernard R. Crick

“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