Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. – Clement Atlee
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. – Reinhold Niebuhr
You can’t afford to hate politics. The politics of this country is democracy. Democracy is by the people, of the people and for the people. The day people stop taking active part in the politics of this country, democracy will not survive. – Arvind Kejriwal
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. – Laurence J. Peter
The root cause of the problem is that in the political system of our country we can cast out votes once in five years and for the next five we grovel in front of the same people we voted for and chose as our representatives. The people have no say whatsoever in the entire system. – Arvind Kejriwal
Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. – Winston Churchill
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. – Abraham Lincoln
Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid. – Bob Dylan
Democracy is good for you when you are not in power and worst when you are in power and that’s why it is best form of government.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. – Harry Emerson Fosdick
No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country. – Alexis de Tocqueville
People are always teaching us democracy but the people who teach us democracy don’t want to learn it themselves. – Vladimir Putin
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. – Winston Churchill
The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy. – Jane Addams
The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it comes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism – ownership of government by an individual, by a group, – Franklin D. Roosevelt
To make democracy work, we must be a notion of participants, not simply observers. One who does not vote has no right to complain. – Louis L’Amour
The key to democracy is an enlightened public.
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority. – Albert Camus
Is democracy all about casting your vote once in five years and then letting these parties and their leaders rule the roost? This cannot be a democracy. There is something wrong somewhere. The basic problem in our country is that there is no democracy. We want democracy. The politics of voting once in five years is no longer acceptable. The people want a direct participation in power. The people shall take decisions, and politicians and officials will have to implement them. – Arvind Kejriwal
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