It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
Quotations
Democracy
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.
-Tom Stoppard
What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.
-Ambrose Bierce
Democracy is an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-Reinhold Niebuhr
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 does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
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
