Democracy Quotations | Page 8

In our political system, money is power. And that means a few can have a lot more power than the rest. That's bad news for everyone else - and for our democracy itself.

Most bands don't work out. A small unit democracy is very, very difficult.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

The right constitutions, three in number- kingship, aristocracy, and polity- and the deviations from these, likewise three in number - tyranny from kingship, oligarchy from aristocracy, democracy from polity.

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy.

A democracy when put to the strain grows weak, and is supplanted by Oligarchy.

No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.