(1347 quotes found)
“A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail.”
Sterling Hayden
“Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.”
Plato
“America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.”
Mikhail Gorbachev
“Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
Bernard Shaw
“Democracy is the road to socialism.”
Karl Marx
“The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”
Henry Louis Mencken
“The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting.”
Charles Bukowski
“Let us in education dream of an aristocracy of achievement arising out of a democracy of opportunity”
Thomas Jefferson
“Education is a human right with immense power to transform. On its foundation rest the cornerstones of freedom, democracy and sustainable human development.”
Kofi Annan
