Muammar Qaddafi Quotes

Democracy is a good client.

What is government itself but the great reflection of human nature.

If the people be governors, who shall be governed?

As force is always on the side of the governed, the governors have nothing to support them but opinion. It is therefore, on opinion only that government is founded; and this maxim extends to the most despotic and most military governments, as well as the most free and the most popular.

Democracy is politics.

The more powerful the state, the more important it submit to widely held norms and consensual methods.

A true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.

In no form of government is there an absolute identity of interest between the people and their rulers

Government should fear the people, not the other way around.

The throne we honour is the people's choice.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

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

I've been reading this little book. It's called the Russian constitution. And it says that the only source of power in Russia is the people. So I don't want to hear those who say we're appealing to the authorities. Who's the power here?

When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?

The civilized world needs to think about a decision when single politicians are not allowed to stay in power.

The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.

We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.

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

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 a process.

The word democracy comes from the Greek and means, literally, government by the people.

A government as good as the people.

The litmus test of democracy is the subordination of military power to civilian authority …

The government is just the people acting together.

Neither current events nor history shows that the majority rules, or ever did rule.