Democracy Quotes

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

In a democracy, the individual enjoys not only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility.

My notion of democracy is that under it the weakest should have the same opportunity as the strongest. That can never happen except through nonviolence. No country in the world today shows any but patronizing regard for the weak.

The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.

A democracy is more than a form of government; it is primarily a mode of associated living, of conjoint communicated experience.

Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today.

Democracy… is a condition where people believe that other people are as good as they are.

Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.

Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted Nazism or Fascism. At best it is merely a cloak to hide the Nazi and the Fascist tendencies of imperialism.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.