A Quote by B. R. Ambedkar

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

B. R. Ambedkar

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B. R. Ambedkar
Indian - Politician
April 14, 1891 - December 6, 1956

Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.

Robert Briffault

It’s sad. Marxism didn’t work. Communism didn’t work. Capitalism doesn’t work. Nothing works. Even democracy doesn’t work. Democracy-the greatest form of government and we have two choices for who’s our leader. In fascism you only have one choice. That’s great. We have one more choice than the worst form of government.

Colin Quinn

The principles and form of government that form the basis of democracy are compatible with Islamic values.

Fethullah Gulen

Democracy is a form of government only because it is a form of moral and spiritual association.

John Dewey

If democracy is control by the people, as it is supposed to be, it is the right form of government. I believe in a complete democracy - individual, political, social, economic. If we really had that, which we don't now, it would be in harmony with divine purpose.

Peace Pilgrim

The form of government and the condition of society must always correspond. Social equality is therefore a postulate of pure democracy.

Lord Acton

As a form of government, imperialism does not seek or require the consent of the governed. It is a pure form of tyranny. The American attempt to combine domestic democracy with such tyrannical control over foreigners is hopelessly contradictory and hypocritical. A country can be democratic or it can be imperialistic, but it cannot be both.

Chalmers Johnson

Through death you find yourself, because you no longer identify with form. You realize you are not the form with which you had identified neither the physical nor the psychological form of "me". That form goes. It dissolves and who you are beyond form emerges through the opening where that form was. One could almost say that every form of life obscures God.

Eckhart Tolle

Democracy is not a form of government. It is a political philosophy that can be embodied in various systems of government.

John Allen Fraser

Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.

Valerie Plame

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

Don Marquis

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

Winston Churchill

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

James Madison

There is no better form of government than democracy.

Sebastian Kurz

The 20th century shows that the form of government that we take for granted, a constitutional democratic republic with checks and balances and a rule of law - that form of government is usually temporary.