Quotes on democracy

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ”

“You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker”

“Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.”

“The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens – tax livestock – labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters.”

“It’s not unpatriotic to denounce an injustice committed on our behalf, perhaps it’s the most patriotic thing we can do.”

“Being human means throwing your whole life on the scales of destiny when need be, all the while rejoicing in every sunny day and every beautiful cloud.”

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

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

Democracy is not something you put away for ten years and then in the eleventh year you wake up and start practicing again.

The voice of the people must always be heard, no matter how faint.

Poetry is the ultimate democracy.

The vote is precious. It is almost sacred. It is the most powerful non-violent tool we have in a democracy.

To make it hard, to make it difficult, almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

I submit to you that when in each man the dream of personal greatness dies, democracy loses the real source of its future strength.

The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage.

The struggle for socialism is the struggle for proletarian (working class) democracy. Proletarian democracy is not the crown of socialism.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

The world is governed by institutions that are not democratic.