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Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority.Collection: Democracies Have
When free discussion is denied, hardening of the arteries of democracy has set in, free institutions are but a lifeless form, and the death of the republic is at hand.Collection: Democracies Have
Democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largesse out of the public treasure. From that moment on, the majority always votes for the candidate promising the most benefit from the public treasury, with the result that democracy always collapses over a loose fiscal policy, always to be followed by a dictatorship, and then a monarchy.Collection: Democracies Have
Democracy has to be born anew every generation, and education is its midwife.Collection: Democracies Have
Down to the present day the luminous image of democracy has often served as a pretext for the most undemocratic actions.Collection: Democracies Have
The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.Collection: Democracies Have
If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish ItCollection: Democracies Have
Everyone living under the social contract we call democracy has a duty to act responsibly, to obey the laws, and to abandon certain types of self-interested behaviors that conflict with the general good.Collection: Democracies Have
Democracy, by its very nature, can't be imposed on people. Democracy has to be the people deciding for themselves.Collection: Democracies Have
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.Collection: Democracies Have
Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.Collection: Democracies Have
In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist.Collection: Democracies Have
It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.Collection: Democracies Have
Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us.Collection: Democracies Have
The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.Collection: Democracies Have
Democracy has both expanded and declined over the years.Collection: Democracies Have
Our democracy has been around far longer than European democracy.Collection: Democracies Have
Democracy has now become corrupted by the nature of the funders.Collection: Democracies Have
Democracy has many definitions, but what's in it for me is not an element of any of them.Collection: Democracies Have
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.Collection: Democracies Have
So much of democracy is built on antagonism. It institutionalizes a certain kind of antagonism. This is not to say that we shouldn't have any democracy, but the fact is that democracy has hardened political identities and made them more violent.Collection: Democracies Have
No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.Collection: Democracies Have
American democracy has been hacked.Collection: Democracies Have
Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raisedCollection: Democracies Have
Fascism and communism have not entirely disappeared but have been sidelined certainly, and liberal democracy has come to be accepted, in theory at least, around the world, if not always in practice.Collection: Democracies Have
So long, and thanks for all the fish.Collection: Democracies Have
On the whole, with scandalous exceptions, Democracy has given the ordinary worker more dignity than he ever had.Collection: Democracies Have
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision.Collection: Democracies Have
Constitutional democracy has created astonishing and apparently irreversible social progress. All we're interested in is talking about when government doesn't work.Collection: Democracies Have
Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both.Collection: Democracies Have
It would perhaps be as well if things were to remain quiet for a few years yet, so that all this 1848 democracy has time to rot away.Collection: Democracies Have
It may be concluded that a pure democracy . . . can admit no cure for the mischiefs of faction.Collection: Democracies Have