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Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.

– Irving KristolRate it:

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.

– John SimonRate it:

Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is ignorant.

– John SimonRate it:

Democracy ends with the ballot box sealing

– AMYNE E. QASEMRate it:

Democracy extends the sphere of individual freedom, socialism restricts it. Democracy attaches all possible value to each man; socialism makes each man a mere agent, a mere number. Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word: equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

– Alexis de TocquevilleRate it:

Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

– James Russell LowellRate it:

Democracy in the market does not need ballot boxes.

– AMYNE E. QASEMRate it:

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

– Thomas JeffersonRate it:

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

– Lyndon B. JohnsonRate it:

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.

– Senator SoaperRate it:

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

– Karl MarxRate it:

Democracy is a form of religion, it is the worship of jackals by jack asses.

– H. L. MenckenRate it:

Democracy is a much more brilliant idea than it seems.

– Oscar Auliq-IceRate it:

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political -- legislative and administrative -- decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

– Joseph SchumpeterRate it:

Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

– Laurence J. PeterRate it:

Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.

– Harry Emerson FosdickRate it:

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. You in America will see that some day.

– Benito MussoliniRate it:

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

– Robert ByrneRate it:

Democracy is blind in itself, that is why we must VOTE for a leader or dictator to rule the mob.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Democracy is for the people by the people, no brothers no sisters no churches no titles!

– King Jehovah HohenzollernRate it:

Democracy is good for you when you are not in power and worst when you are in power and that’s why it is best form of government.

– Zaman AliRate it:

Democracy is good, but it is not perfect, simply because there is little chance of seeing a great man elected through elections.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.

– Jawaharlal NehruRate it:

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