Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
- Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy: The state of affairs in which you consent to having your pocket picked, and elect the best man to do it.
- Benjamin Lichtenberg
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
- Theodore Parker
Democracy is the road to socialism.
- Karl Marx
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
- Oscar Wilde
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
- Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
- Robert Byrne
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
- Abraham Lincoln
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
- Tom Stoppard
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