Quotes About Democracy Plato

#1. Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell.

Plato

#2. Democracy ... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

Plato

#3. An extended school day gives administrators the ability to ensure children get a well-rounded education.

Geoffrey Canada

#4. They say the people most affected by the credit crunch are pensioners - well, let go of the handbag then, Nanna.

Jimmy Carr

#5. The True End of not only therapy but Maturity is to learn to live with the inescapable fact that 97% of all human beings are getting fucked and 97% of all faggots are, too.

Larry Kramer

#6. For nothing burns with such amazing speed, As the dry sticks of a religious creed.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

#7. There's a big Alzheimer's benefit in a couple of weeks. A charity ball is right after that. We eat, we smile, we pose.
No balls. None.
I'm sorry to hear that. Have you talked to a doctor?

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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

Plato

#9. And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices.

Plato

#10. Of course I remember that. You sounded like a frat boy and looked like a fucking model. What man could ever forget that?

Christina Lauren

#11. Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy.

Plato

#12. 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 bees in which the drones display, multiply and starve the workers so the idlers will consume the food and the workers will perish.

Plato

#13. Graham had stared through the bars for about five seconds when Lecter opened his eyes and said, "That's the same atrocious aftershave you wore in court." "I keep getting it for Christmas.

Thomas Harris

#14. In a democracy only will the freeman of nature design to dwell.

Plato

#15. Like everything else I teach in my coaching, staying in shape for me is about the little actions and changes in lifestyle that have a huge effect over time.

Matthew Hussey

#16. A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.

Plato

#17. Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.

Louis MacNeice

#18. Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?

Plato

#19. I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.

Jack Kevorkian

#20. These, then, will be some of the features of democracy ... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

Plato

#21. Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?

C.S. Lewis

#22. If he is strong, then we'll have to be quick and clever," she said in a cheerful tone."A bit of trickery may be needed as well."
"Ach, ye sound like a Highlander," he said. "In Gaelic we say, an ten ach mbionn laidir ni follair do bheith glic." He who is not strong must be cunning.

Margaret Mallory

#23. The same wind that blows us off course can turn and carry us home.

Tiffany Reisz

#24. The definition of an extreme authoritarian is one who is willing blindly to assume that government accusations are true without any evidence presented or opportunity to contest those accusations.

Glenn Greenwald

#25. Democracy leads to anarchy, which is mob rule.

Plato

#26. A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!

Plato