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.
Democracy Quotes
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 […]
A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employments.
Democracy arose from men’s thinking that if they were equal in any respect, they were equal absolutely.
The primal principle of democracy is the worth and dignity of the individual.
The motive power of democracy is love.
We once worried that democracy could not survive if an undereducated populace knew too little. Now we worry if it can survive us knowing too much.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.