Authority Quote by Walter Lippmann

democracy ... begins from the ground up. Anything living grows from the bottom up. Everything dangerous, like bombs, gets dropped from the sky down.

— Vandana Shiva

Democracy requires a certain relish for confusion

— Molly Ivins

When a mob of institutions decides there is only one way forward, democracy loses meaning.

— Anna Paulina Luna

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

— Aristotle

Dictators fall when they're overconfident; they stay in power when they're paranoid.

— Masha Gessen

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

“Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle withing which…

— Will Durant

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the…

— Karl Marx

“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their…

— Fisher Ames

“one man with vision—an enlightened dictator. People are scared of the word nowadays. But what kind of democracy can exist side by side with…

— Chinua Achebe

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative -…

— Joseph A. Schumpeter

Democracy, like the human organism, carries within it the seed of its own destruction.

— C. V. Wedgwood