Democracy Quotes for Whatsapp and Facebook Status
An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.
Keith Preston (1884-1927)
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
E. B. White (1899-1985) American author, editor
The most dangerous foe to truth and freedom in our midst is the compact majority, yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Norwegian dramatist
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish writer
Nor is the people’s judgement always true; The most may err as grossly as the few.
John Dryden (1631-1700) English poet, dramatist
Democracy is only an experiment in government, and it has the obvious disadvantage of merely counting votes instead of weighing them.
W. R. Inge (1860-1954) Dean of St. Paul’s, London
It’s not the voting that’s democracy, it’s the counting.
Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) British playwright
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.
Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) American socialist leader
The majority never has the right on its side. Never 1 say! That is one of the social lies that a free, thinking man is bound to rebel against. Who makes up the majority in. any given country? Is it the wise men or, tile fools? I think agree that the fools are in a terrble overwhelming majority, all the wide world over.
Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906) Norwegian dramatist
No man is good enough to govern another man without thatother’s consent.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American president
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American president
Two cheers for democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster (1879-1970) British novelist
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971)
The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand The vote that shakes the turrets of the land.
Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809-1894) American writer, physician
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) American president
A fanatical belief in democracy makes democratic institutions impossible.
Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) British philosopher, mathematician
Whatever democracy may be theoretically, one is sometimes tempted to define it practically as standardized and commercialized melodrama.
Irving Babbitt (1865-1933)
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, critic
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) Argentine poet, critic, short story writer
Democracy which began by liberating man politically has developed a dangerous tendency to enslave him through the tyranny of majorties and the deadly power of their opinion.
Ludwig Lewisohn (1882-1956) American author, critic
Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Anglo-Irish author
Democracy: in which you say what you like and do what you’re told.
Gerald Barry (1898-1968) British journalist
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.
William Penn (1644-1718) religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
