Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsacker Quotes

Democracy is about non-arbitrary decisions. Democracy is about spreading decisions; it is not about destroying processes.

Democracy is not majority rule but rule by public opinion.

All for the People and All by the People; Nothing About the People Without the People - That is Democracy!

Democracy doesn't mean electing a dictator every five years.

Democratic processes require time.

Democracy is politics.

A democratic state must feel before it can see; that is what makes it slow to act. But the people, at last, will be right.

Above all, democracy means pluralism.

Democracy becomes a government of bullies tempered by editors

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

Democracy can be noisy and messy. But it works.

Democracy is a self-correcting mechanism.

Just because a group does not take its decisions by voting does not mean they have no understanding of the essence of democracy.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

The principle of democracy is all about delegation of power by the vast majority of citizens through a few chosen representatives chosen on merit and competence.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

I think the advantage of democracy is that it makes us less dependent on a group of leaders.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

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

Democracy may mean something more than a theoretically absolute popular government, but it assuredly cannot mean anything less.

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

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

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

Democracy is a process.

My message is that Democracy is not an alien invention. It is a way of solving problems in our society.