Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
-Oscar Wilde
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
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"
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
-Robert Byrne
Democracy is the road to socialism.
-Karl Marx
Democracy means not I am as good as you are, but you are as good as I am.
-Theodore Parker
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
-Bertrand Russell
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
