새벽길의 그냥그저그래 3

민주주의에 대해 이런 말들이 있었다.

더글라스 러미스(Douglas Lummis)가 쓴 급진민주주의(Radical Democracy)의 처음 부분에 나오는 것 중에서 맘에 드는 것만 발췌한 것이다.

Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely. - Aristotle
 
A perfect democracy is the most shameless thing in the world. - Edmund Birke
 
The devil was the first democrat. - Lord Byron
 
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 
You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution. - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. - Winston Churchill
 
Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism. Two cheers are quite enough: there is no occupation to give three. - E.M. Forster
 
As I would not be a slave, so would I not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy. - Abraham Lincoln
 
A democratic society might be defied as one ... in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority. - Walter Lippmann
 
A proper measure of democracy should be put into effect in the army, chiefly by abolishing the feudal practice of bullying and beating and by having officers and men share weal and woe. Once this is done, unity will be achieved between officers and men, the combat effectiveness of the army will be greatly increased, and there will be no doubt of our ability to sustain the long, cruel war. - Mao Tse-Tung
 
Democracy is the constitution of the Species. - Karl Marx
 
Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. - Reinhold Niebuhr
 
People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses nad in the subway. - Simeon Strunsky