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Democracy is the most overrated concept of our generation and is perhaps the most advertised export product under the made in US label. It is the easiest to tackle, but difficult to practice.

– Mwanandeke KindemboRate it:

Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.

– Marquis de Flers RobertRate it:

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

– E. B. WhiteRate it:

Democracy is the road to socialism

– Karl MarxRate it:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

– H.L. MenckenRate it:

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

– H. L. MenckenRate it:

Democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.

– Winston ChurchillRate it:

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote!

– Benjamin FranklinRate it:

Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

– PlatoRate it:

Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.

– Clement AtleeRate it:

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

– Gilbert Keith ChestertonRate it:

Democracy means not 'I am as good as you are' but 'You are as good as I am.'

– Theodore ParkerRate it:

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

– Oscar WildeRate it:

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.

– Johnny CarsonRate it:

Democracy might be defined in different ways relating to contexts and interests; however everyone must accept that the universal beauty of democracy is the right to questioning and reasoning, inquiry for truth and justice.

– Ganga Sagar PantRate it:

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

– James BovardRate it:

Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.

– Samuel AdamsRate it:

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

– George Bernard ShawRate it:

Democracy without meritocracy is just hypocrisy and no different from autocracy.

– Anuj SomanyRate it:

Democracy works. Against us.

– Jon Stewart, The Daily Show: Referring to the victory of George W. Bush in the 2004 election.Rate it:

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

– Allen GinsbergRate it:

Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making, absolutist shape which we have given to it is, it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation.

– Bertrand de JouvenelRate it:

Democratic Socialism devolves into totalitarian Socialism and eventually into full on Communism as people resist statism.

– A.E. SamaanRate it:

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

– Salvador DalíRate it:

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