“Universal suffrage is one kind of democracy, but it is not the only way of democracy.”

1990s, Schafer interview (1995)

The Rediff Interview/R Venkataraman

on being asked specifically whether Burma and North Korea have genuine universal suffrage. (2015)

Source: Cheng, Kevin (27 March 2015). "Leung defends poll reform amid Legco uproar" http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?pp_cat=30&art_id=155645&sid=44154809&con_type=1. The Standard

Two Bad Answers http://takimag.com/article/two_bad_answers_john_derbyshire/print#axzz33lq12wO9, Taki's Magazine, June 5, 2014.

The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

1960s, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)

Source: Writings, The Institutes of Biblical Law (1973), p. 100

“What is liberal education,” pp. 4-5
Liberalism Ancient and Modern (1968)
Context: It was once said that democracy is the regime that stands or falls by virtue: a democracy is a regime in which all or most adults are men of virtue, and since virtue seems to require wisdom, a regime in which all or most adults are virtuous and wise, or the society in which all or most adults have developed their reason to a high degree, or the rational society. Democracy, in a word, is meant to be an aristocracy which has broadened into a universal aristocracy. … There exists a whole science—the science which I among thousands of others profess to teach, political science—which so to speak has no other theme than the contrast between the original conception of democracy, or what one may call the ideal of democracy, and democracy as it is. … Liberal education is the ladder by which we try to ascend from mass democracy to democracy as originally meant.