Democracy Quote by William Greider

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our…

— Julius Nyerere

“the morality of capitalism, just like the morality of democracy, is rooted in consent.”

— Dinesh D'Souza

Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are…

— Louis Pasteur

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone.

— William Beveridge

The crisis of modern democracy is a profound one. Free elections, a free press and an independent judiciary mean little when the free market…

— Arundhati Roy

“But a democracy is bound in the end to be obscene, for it is composed of myriad disunited fragments, each fragment assuming to itself…

— D.H. Lawrence

I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous…

— Douglas Hurd

Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority…

— Pentti Linkola

The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the desire to lead anyone.

— William Beveridge

This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both…

— John R. Commons

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line…

— Norman Mailer

I wanted the Peace Corps to be something very vague and unorganized, and to a large extent it was. It did not run smoothly.…

— Paul Theroux