Democracy Quote by Torbjorn Tannsjo

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“democratic theory is concerned with processes by which ordinary citizens exert a relatively high degree of control over leaders;”

— Robert A. Dahl

Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

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

A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.

— Andre Siegfried

Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.

— George Soros

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

— James Russell Lowell

In a democratic party, where internal democracy is alive, there are bound to be different views.

— Amit Shah

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

— H. L. Mencken

Democracy is the product of human thought and reasoning. It's true that philosophers and thinkers have always imagined a utopia in which everything is…

— Simin Behbahani

A thoughtless citizen of a democracy is a delinquent citizen of a democracy,

— Leon Wieseltier