Democracy is not compatible with financial oligarchy..

Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years..

The line of demarcation between democracy and monocracy is often thin, but rigid and stronger than unbreakable steel..

In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press..

Recent action in Syria and Palestine also tell us that the awakening voices of democracy in those regions are occurring, and that those in that regio….

Imagine what would happen if the government were to take the wealth of 200,000 of India's richest people and redistribute it amongst 2 million of Ind….

No tempest or conflagration, however great, is harder to quell than mob carried away by the novelty of power..

The Western democracy of today is the forerunner of Marxism which without it would not be thinkable. It provides this world plague with the culture i….

What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working….

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion..

Democracy does not contain any force which will check the constant tendency to put more and more on the public payroll. The state is like a hive of b….

If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase..

Democracy is hard work..

By rejecting the authority of the individual and replacing it by the numbers of some momentary mob, the parliamentary principle of majority rule sins….

There cannot be true democracy unless all citizens are able to participate fully in the lives of their country..

A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms ….

The government has a defect: it's potentially democratic. Corporations have no defect: they're pure tyrannies..

The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern,….

Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves..

In the 1960s, various parts of the population became energized and began to enter the public arena to call for the rights of women, students, young p….

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme..