Democracy Quote by Timothy Ferriserris

“Literate, affluent, self-confident people do not like living under either dictatorship or chaos. As more nations move into modernity and find themselves populated with…

— Oliver H. Woshinsky

“It is not to political leaders our people must look, but to themselves. Leaders are but individuals, and individuals are imperfect, liable to error…

— Michael Collins

“every totalitarian regime forms a type of human being on whom it relies for its stability. The shaping of the New Man is the…

— Masha Gessen

“For political leaders in a democracy are not revolutionaries or leaders of creative thought. The best of them are those who respond wisely to…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“The "democratic spirit"... [or the campaign to make everyone the same] leads to a nation without great men, a nation mainly of subliterates, full…

— C.S. Lewis

“Lazy and disorganized people never rise to true leadership. Many who aspire to leadership fail because they have never learned to follow.”

— J Oswald Sanders

The very strength of a nation eventually proves to be its weakness.

— Paul Harris

“Democracies are not lucky. They do not attract civic-minded leaders by chance. Rather, they attract survival-oriented leaders who understand that, given their dependence on…

— Bruce Bueno De Mesquita

In short, there are certain fundamental requisites for wise and resolute democratic leadership. It must build on hope, not on fear; on honesty, not…

— Edmund Ezra Day

“There is no leader who has remained in power for too long and has not morally decayed, who has not become involved in violence…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“A leader who fails to live amongst his folk will be like a blind man that does not know the light from darkness. Yet…

— David Ssembajjo

“Keep struggling, o brave soldier - keep struggling till politicians become an extinct species and politics an extinct profession. The mission is, not to…

— Abhijit Naskar