One of the worst forms of government is a pure democracy, that is, one in which the citizens enact and administer the laws directly. Such a government is helpless against the mischiefs of faction.
Democracy Quotes
The fashionable concentration on democracy as the main value threatened is not without danger. It is largely responsible for the misleading and unfounded belief that, so long as the ultimate source of power is the will of the majority, the power cannot be arbitrary… it is not the source but the limitation of power which […]
Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone’s slave.
The zealots of democracy are beginning to forget, or conveniently to put aside, the enormous majorities by which the French nation, now supposed to be governing itself as a democracy, gave only the other day to a military despot any answer which he desired.
A threat to deprive the governed of their jobs or means of livelihood, by a group which has the power to do so, would undermine a democracy.
Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management.
It is impossible to run a democracy if people with opposing ideas refuse to deal with one another.
Where the political forms of democracy function within a society in which economic controls are not subject to political control, there is always a standing threat to democracy.
This is the most democratic place I have “ever” been in. And the more I see of democracy the more I dislike it… Everything is happy-go-lucky, and one couldn’t “fret” about anything if one tried. One just doesn’t care. And they are all like that… In a way it’s a relief – a relief from […]
The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.
