Democracy Is Dead Quotes

#1. Democracy will be dead by 1950.

John Langdon-Davies

#2. (Tradition) is the democracy of the dead.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#3. Slogans seem to be dead; this world is now busy chanting fears of lost democracy

Munia Khan

#4. Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.

G.K. Chesterton

#5. What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

#6. Pnin slowly walked under solemn pines. The sky was dying. He did not believe in an autocratic God. He did believe, dimly, in a democracy of ghosts. The souls of the dead, perhaps, formed committees, and these, in continuous session, attended the destinies of the quick.

Vladimir Nabokov

#7. Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy - which many believe goes hand in hand with it - will be dead as well.

Margaret Atwood

#8. Democracy is buying a big house you can't afford with money you don't have to impress people you wish were dead.

Johnny Carson

#9. Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. Tradition means giving a vote to most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Plato

#12. In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

John James Ingalls