Ignorance Quote by Thomas M. Nichols

“Experts need to remember, always, that they are the servants and not the masters of a democratic society and a republican government. If citizens,…

— Thomas M. Nichols

A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry.

— Thomas Jefferson

“This is why the collapse of the relationship between experts and citizens is a dysfunction of democracy itself. The abysmal literacy, both political and…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Democracies don't even withstand formally half educated citizens. Courtesy, respect, and sensibility don't tend to ethical sense. Nature nurtures, if compared to most good…

— Anonymous

“Democratic institutions awaken and foster a passion for equality which they can never entirely satisfy. This complete equality eludes the grasp of the people…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out of the…

— Will Durant

One of the central assumptions of the concept of democracy, perhaps its most central assumption, is that by and large human beings are better…

— Sidney Hook

“When distinction of any kind, even intellectual distinction, is somehow resented as a betrayal of the American spirit of equal opportunity for all, the…

— Harold Edmund Stearns

“These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs…

— Walter Lippmann

“Democracy is a system were ignorants choose a government, comunism is a system where ignorants govern themselves.”

— Daniel Delgado F

The problem is there is no such thing as a viable democracy made up of experts, zealots, politicians and spectators.

— Elizabeth Coleman