Quotes about Failed Democracy

Chaka Fattah

Democracy derailed is democracy denied.

Otto Ruhle

No matter how hard we may try to revive Democracy, to help her once more stand on her legs, to breathe life into her, all efforts will be futile. All hopes for a victory of democracy over fascism are the crassest illusions.

With Hitler’s early victories in Europe, the victory of the Spanish fascists in their civil war, and Mussolini in Africa, many people thought that fascism would dominate the world. Ruhle was one.

Amal Clooney

Democracy is dead in the Maldives.

Aaron McGruder

We have, essentially, a worthless democracy.

Pierre Corneille

The worst of all states is the people's state.

Robert H. Jackson

… our representative system has failed.

Jackson felt that the Congress should have acted to eliminate school segregation rather than have the decision made by the Supreme Court. However, despite the fact that a majority of the Congress was opposed to school segregation the Southern use of the Filibuster prevented any desegregation legislation from being passed. The majority could not prevail.

Frank Zappa

Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an 'inconvenience.' We have opted instead for an authoritarian system disguised as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.

Helen Zille

Democracy has generally failed in Africa because to much power, too often, was concentrated in the hands of too few.

Zaffar Abbas

In 54 years of its existence, Pakistan has not been able to find a workable model of democracy

Lydia M. Child

The United States is a warning rather than an example to the world.

Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

What's happened recently in Pakistan, India and Kuwait only goes to show that it's futile to imitate Western democracy. They've ended up exactly where they started.

Richard Engel

When you look at - when you talk to people in Africa and across the Middle East, they're not satisfied with the way things are going. Sure, this idea of democracy was injected into the region, but it has brought mostly chaos.

Failed Democracy Quotes