Notes from Wikiquote
This specific wording as quoted in Voices of Resurgent Islam (1983), Oxford University Press, John Esposito, p. 180 | Original Urdu text: جمہوریت اک طرز حکومت ہے کہ جس میں
بندوں کو گنا کرتے ہیں، تولا نہیں کرتے | This is a paraphrase of
reference to a quotation from Friedrich Schiller
Variants
rendering: "Democracy is a system in which heads are counted but not weighed." As quoted in Elst, K. Hindu Dharma and the Culture Wars (2019)