The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art poems schools theology displacing all that exists or that has been produced anywhere in the past under opposite influences.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

However democracy cannot be defined as the existence of parliaments and elections alone.

One person alone can't do anything as important as bringing genuine democracy to a country.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.