Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
Quotations
Democracy
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
-Winston S. Churchill
It’s not the voting that’s democracy; It’s the counting.
-Tom Stoppard "Tom Stoppard"
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
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
-Abraham Lincoln
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
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 an abuse of statistics.
-Jorge Luis Borges
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
-Irving Kristol
