Karl Popper Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy,' and the other, 'tyranny.'.

  Karl Popper

  Freedom, Government, Democracy

  Karl Raimund Popper (2002). “Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge”, p.464, Psychology Press

• It is wrong and dangerous to extol freedom by telling people that they will certainly be all right once they are free. The most we can say of democracy or freedom is that they give our personal abilities a little more influence on our well-being.

  Karl Popper

  People, Giving, Democracy

  "On Freedom (All Life is Problem Solving)". Essay by Karl Popper, translated by Patrick Camiller, 1994.

• The defence of democracy must consist in making anti-democratic experiences too costly for those who try them; much more costly than a democratic compromise

  Karl Popper

  Democracy, Trying, Compromise

• It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

  Karl Popper

  Freedom, Government, Office

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