It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
Quotations
Democracy
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
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 must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
-James Bovard
"Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty"
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
