Democracy Quote by Vlad Lenin

A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of…

— Vladimir Lenin

Democracy appears to me potentially a higher form of political organization than any kind of dictatorship. But if it turns out that in America,…

— Benjamin Spock

Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority.

— Albert Camus

Democracy is a form of the state, it represents, on the one hand, the organized, systematic use of force against persons; but, on the…

— Vladimir Lenin

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

— Plato

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among…

— Plato

Every actual democracy rests on the principle that not only are equals equal but unequals will not be treated equally.Democracy requires, therefore, first homogeneity…

— Carl Schmitt

Democracy is an experiment, and the right of the majority to rule is no more inherent than the right of the minority to rule;…

— William Allen White

Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas.

— Mahatma Gandhi

“democracy is not simply order and rationality displayed in voting, structured decision making, and legislating, but that it also and necessarily is contentious affect…

— Carl DiSalvo

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

— Aristotle

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has…

— James Russell Lowell