Democracy Quote by Yanis Varoufakis

“As James Heartfield, author of The European Union and the End of Politics, noted, to follow such events is to ‘Step through the looking…

— Mick Hume

“New political systems and philosophies were imported into the Near East under the general term democracy and grafted artificially into a society which was…

— Gerald De Gaury

“I do not say that democracy has been more pernicious on the whole, and in the long run, than monarchy or aristocracy. Democracy has…

— John Adams

“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, indeed, has a fair-appearing name . . . Monarchy . . . has an unpleasant sound, but is a most practical form of government to live under.…

— Adrian Goldsworthy

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

— William De Witt Hyde

“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau

“Democracy' was a sociological term in Russia in 1917, denoting the masses, the lower class, at least as strongly as it did a political…

— China Miéville

“Democracy is supposed to be ‘of the people, by the people and for the people’. Capitalism is ‘of the capitalist, for the capitalist’. Period.”

— Jerry Ash

“orator Isocrates: “Democracy destroys itself”

— Michael Lewis

“Success of democracy lies within the analytical thought of a common man.”

— M.H. Rakib

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

— Zaman Ali