Thomas Hobbes Quotes

American democracy must be a failure because it places the supreme authority in the hands of the most ignorant part of society.

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

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.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 hypocrisy without limitation.

People mistake majoritarianism for democracy.

Addressing ‘grievances’ is a founding principle of American Democracy.

It's a democracy and if I am outvoted, I have to accept the majority decisions.

I like the noise of democracy.

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

Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political - legislative and administrative - decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections.

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

Voters will decide how they want to be governed.

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.

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

We must reflect more on what democracy in the exercise of authority would mean. Is truth determined by a majority vote, only for a new 'truth' to be 'discovered' by a new majority tomorrow?

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

Democracy is only tolerable because no other system is.

Democracy is the only form of government which dislikes itself.

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

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa!

Democratic processes require time.