democracy Quotes

Justice therefore demands that no one should do more ruling than being ruled, but that all should have their turn.

If freedom and equality are found mostly in a democracy, they will be best achieved when everyone equally participates in government as much as possible.

In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the... ...

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and... ...

Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle... ...

Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds... ...

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.

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.

Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all... ...

The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy.