Emil Cioran Quotes

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Let's face it: however old-fashioned and out of date and devaluated the word is, we like the way of living provided by democracy.

Democracy is hypocrisy without limitation.

Well, you know, too much democracy is a sort of sad thing.

There is a danger in democracy itself.

Democracy is a process by which people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.

Democracy, loudly upheld as a cure for much of the ailing world, has proved no guarantor of political wisdom, even if it remains the least bad form of government.

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

Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers.

Democracy, once unleashed, is a pretty powerful force.

Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.

God Bless democracy. I approve of it highly. I suffer from it greatly.

No democracy pretends to be a tyranny. Most tyrannies pretend they are democracies. Democracy remains the definition of political legitimacy.

[Citizens] have the political liberty to direct the governmental process to make decisions that might be wrong in the ideal sense, subject to correction in the ordinary political process.

We live in a democracy, and people are free to sometimes choose the wrong leader.

If allowed, democracy does actually work.

Democracy is not perfect.

Democracy is perhaps the most promiscuous word in the world of public affairs.

Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

It is an essential tenet of our whole representative form of government, the idea that there should not be some tyranny which makes it so nobody can even have a chance to vote.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

I like the noise of democracy.

Democracy is now going forth on a crusade against imperialism.

Democracy is a good client.