democracy Quotes

“Every citizen, it is said, must have equality, and therefore in a democracy the poor have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“And so tyranny naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme form of liberty?”

― Plato, The Republic

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“To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect and their oneness, and should insist upon choosing as their representatives only such persons as are good and true.”

― Mahatma Gandhi, The Story of my Experiments with Truth

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“He who is a citizen in a democracy will often not be a citizen in an oligarchy.”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“Full steam — Knowledge — Zzzzzp! Money — Zzzzzzp! — Power! That’s the cycle democracy is built on!”

― Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie

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“As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State 'What does it matter to me?' the State may be given up for lost.”

― Charles Dickens,

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“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.”

― Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom

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“A State for one man is no State at all.”

― Sophocles, Antigone

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“Tyranny, as I was saying, is monarchy exercising the rule of a master over the political society; oligarchy is when men of property have the government in their hands; democracy, the opposite, when the indigent, and not the men of property, are...”

― Aristotle, Politics

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“It was not lack of ability that limited my people, but lack of opportunity.”

― Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

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