Democracy Quote by Will Durant

Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody's equal.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Democracy means that people respect the rights of others, including the right to be different.”

— Jerome Nathanson

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

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“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

“A society without democracy is a society of slaves and fools.”

— Zaman Ali

“Thomas Jefferson taught that a democracy was impractical unless the people were educated.”

— Carl Sagan

“Yet democracy is on the whole inferior to aristocracy.92 For it is based on a false assumption of equality; it “arises out of the…

— Will Durant

“Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.”

— Jack Lessenberry

“Democracy is nonconformity; it is mutual loyalty, even when we have to attack one another's ideas - ideas, which, because they are always human,…

— Joost A. M. Meerloo

“Democracy is a most accommodating and charming form of government, full of variety and diversity,”

— William De Witt Hyde

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

— John Hospers

“So much hangs on the decisions of a small number of poorly educated people.” “That’s democracy.”

— Ken Follett