Iskander Mirza Quotes

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

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

Democracy is very powerful but very fragile.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

Above all, democracy means pluralism.

In a democracy sometimes you go forwards and sometimes you go backward.

People mistake majoritarianism for democracy.

If allowed, democracy does actually work.

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

I like the noise of democracy.

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

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.

When we say 'democracy' we have to mean what we say.

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.

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 only tolerable because no other system is.

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

Democracy, once unleashed, is a pretty powerful force.

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy a few people have their way; in a democracy no one has his way.

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

Notwithstanding the oppression and injustice experienced among us from democracy, the genius of the people is in favor of it, and the genius of the people must be consulted.

Democracy is an open wound that the East has been carrying for centuries.

Democracy is the best revenge.