Democracy: A living word?

# And our political system is called Democracy because the government of the city is not in the hands of the few, it is in the hands of the many. Objective truth is the real truth.

From Pericles’ Funeral Oration, Thucydides

# An excellent democracy is one that has neither too rich nor too poor citizens.

Thales of Miletus

“Free Will”

The blame is his who chooses ; God is blameless.

Plato

# Who is a citizen?

A citizen is one who is capable of governing and being governed.

Aristotle

# “Dimou sfalentos pas agirtis arxete”

When the people are deceived, every gambler becomes lord.

Saint Gregory the Theologian

# I am the state

Louis 14th

# Diplomacy without weapons is music without instruments.

Frederick II (the Great)

#Democracy in Europe is fake.

Metternich

#Luxury destroys democracies. Poverty destroys monarchies.

Montesquieu

# In a democracy, every human being is necessary.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

H. L. Mencken, American columnist

#Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people.

Abraham Lincoln

# Order without freedom and freedom without order are equally destructive.

Theodore Roosevelt

# Those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics, they do not know what religion is.

Mahatma Gandhi

# Prometheus is the most important saint and martyr in the philosophical diary.

Karl Marx

# Only the truth is revolutionary.

Lenin