Benjamin R. Barber Quotes

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Democracy is about opposition.

Democracy is messy.

People mistake majoritarianism for democracy.

In a democracy, there should be representation from every field.

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

I like the noise of democracy.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

I'm an extreme libertarian, but I realize we're in a democracy, and in a democracy, people can have views of all stripes, and there's no reason to argue about it.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

All for the People and All by the People; Nothing About the People Without the People - That is Democracy!

My political ideal is democracy.

Democracy is that fine art of compromise.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

Democracy is not a result. Democracy is a process.

How central shall democracy be in everything else we want to do in the world?

It is not suffrage that gives life to democracy; it is our democratic society that gives life to suffrage.

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.

What the world of the twenty-first century calls democracy is in fact the fusion of two distinct political traditions. One is liberty—that is individual freedom. The other is popular sovereignty: rule by the people.

Democracy is a self-correcting mechanism.

In democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not its taste, but its effect,...

Democracy is messy, and it's hard. It's never easy.

If allowed, democracy does actually work.

To say a democracy prospers only if one set of voices is heard would be untrue.