Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
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"
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
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 is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
