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.
Democracy Quotes
Democracy… is a condition where people believe that other people are as good as they are.
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.
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.
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.
Now people talk of democracy as being coarse and turbulent: it is a self-evident error in mere history. Aristocracy is the thing that is always coarse and turbulent: for it means appealing to the self-confident people. Democracy means appealing to the diffident people. Democracy means getting those people to vote who would never have the […]
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
For each man to have one whole woman to cook for and wait upon him is a poor education for democracy. The boy with a servile mother, the man with a servile wife, cannot reach the sense of equal rights we need to-day. Too constant consideration of the master’s tastes makes the master selfish… We […]
