Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb.
-Anonymous
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
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
-Winston S. Churchill
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
