Fatima Mernissi Quotes

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

Democracy is only tolerable because no other system is.

Democracy, which means despair of finding any Heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

Democracy is a good client.

Our country is blessed with a democratic political system that is sensitive to the wishes of our people.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

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

Democracy is an imperfect way of steering between the violence of anarchy and the violence of tyranny, with the least violence you can get away with.

... as an observer of the actual condition of Egyptian society, I cannot shut my eyes to the fact that popular government, as we understand it, is for a longer time than anyone can foresee at present out of the question. The people neither comprehend it nor desire it. They would come to singular grief if they had it.

Democracy--with all of its inefficiency--is still the best system we have so far for enhancing the prospects of our mutual survival

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Democracy is not imperialism… Imposing democracy is an oxymoron ….You can’t have democracy instantly.

Democracy is like sex. When it is good, it is very, very good. And when it is bad, it is still pretty good.

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

The United States is dangerously close to becoming a democracy instead of a republic.

What is democracy?—an aristocracy of blackguards.

The democracy of the Western countries is the predecessor of Marxism, which would be unthinkable without democracy.

They which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy.

I think democracy is a universal idea and I think letting people rule themselves happens to be something that serves America and America’s interests.