Democracy, like any non-coercive relationship, rests on a shared understanding of limits.
Democracy Quotes
Western democracy, as it functions today, is diluted Nazism or Fascism. At best it is merely a cloak to hide the Nazi and the Fascist tendencies of imperialism.
Now people talk of democracy as being coarse and turbulent: it is a self-evident error in mere history. Aristocracy is the thing that is always coarse and turbulent: for it means appealing to the self-confident people. Democracy means appealing to the diffident people. Democracy means getting those people to vote who would never have the […]
Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.
For each man to have one whole woman to cook for and wait upon him is a poor education for democracy. The boy with a servile mother, the man with a servile wife, cannot reach the sense of equal rights we need to-day. Too constant consideration of the master’s tastes makes the master selfish… We […]
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Democracy is the name we give to the people each time we need them.
The proper function of a government is to make it easy for the people to do good, and difficult for them to do evil.
But we’re not a democracy. It’s a terrible misunderstanding and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we’re a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy. Wealth has its way. The concentration of wealth and the division between rich and poor in the U.S. are unequaled anywhere. And think of […]
So Two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
