A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else’s self-esteem.
Democracy Quotes
Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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.
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.
