In democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.
Democracy Quotes
Puritanism, believing itself quick with the seed of religious liberty, laid, without knowing it, the egg of democracy.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education.
Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
In a democracy, the power lies in the manipulation of public opinion; who controls information and education prevails.
It (democracy)is supposed to reduce all mankind to a dead level of mediocrity in character and culture, to vulgarize men’s conceptions of life, and therefore their code of morals, manners, and conduct – to endanger the rights of property and possession. But I believe that the real gravamen of the charges lies in the habit […]
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
Fuck your parliament and your constitution. We pay a lot of good American dollars to the Greeks. If your prime minister gives me talk about democracy, parliament and constitutions, he, his parliament, and his constitution may not last very long. (To the Greek ambassador, regarding Cyprus)
