It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
Quotations
Democracy
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
-George Bernard Shaw
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
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 an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
