Average Quote by W. E. B. Du Bois

“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 essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.”

— John Hospers

“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

“There are two ideas of government. There are those who believe that if you just legislate to make the well-to-do prosperous, that their prosperity…

— Alice Schroeder

Democracy's premise rests on the notion that the collective wisdom of the majority will prove right more often than it's wrong; that given sufficient…

— Ben Fountain

“Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the people, remember;…

— B.F. Skinner

The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at…

— Yair Lapid

“Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.”

— Winston S. Churchill

“The relationship between experts and citizens is not “democratic.” All people are not, and can never be, equally talented or intelligent. Democratic societies, however,…

— Thomas M. Nichols

If we believe in a democratic system, we have to accept the will of the people.

— Recep Tayyip Erdogan

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

— H. L. Mencken

“To hear these defenders of democracy talk, one would think that the people deliberate like a committee of wise men, whereas in truth judicial…

— Joseph de Maistre