Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

My message is that Democracy is not an alien invention. It is a way of solving problems in our society.

Democracy is not majority rule but rule by public opinion.

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

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Democracy is not about one party dominating.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

Democracy is not an instant coffee.

Democracy is about voting and it's about a majority vote. And it's time that we started exercising the Democratic process.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

[Describing America:] Public opinion, which is there omnipotent, is generally right in its aims ...

Democracy is a fickle employer.

The most profound argument for democracy is its faith in man.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors

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

The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.

There are a couple of ways to use the word democracy, and the way that I think is productive is to think about democracy as not a state that can actually be achieved, but as an ideal.

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

Democracy is essential for equality. Thank God, Indian democracy is still working. That is because every Indian is essentially a thinker. Thinking is not limited to the elite.

We should never take democracy for granted. Democracy can emerge and develop, but it can also decay.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Democracy forever teases us with the contrast between its ideals and its realities, between its heroic possibilities and its sorry achievements.

It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else.