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{{quote|''Democracy is the absolute worst form of government--except, of course, for all those others.''}}
{{quote|''A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere
''Or a cataclysmic earthquake I'd accept with some despair
''But no, you sent us Congress--
''Good God, sir, was that fair?''
|'''John Adams''', ''[[1776 (musical)|1776]]''}}
{{quote|Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon [[Blue Blood|the nobility of a race]], not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.
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{{quote|Giving power to the inferior components of a nation could only produce inferior results. Those mediocre and substandard minds - uneducated, self-centred, avaricious, prejudiced, chauvinistically patriotic - would ultimately bring about the downfall of their society
|'''Alizome Tor Fel-A''', in ''[[Star Trek: Typhon Pact]]
{{quote|Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is about eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried. Democracy's worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents - [[Lowest Common Denominator|at a depressingly low level]].
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{{quote|Democracy is an [[Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics|abuse of statistics]].
| [[Jorge Luis Borges]], as quoted in ''
{{quote|One of the things that the fans of the theory of Democratic Peace, the theory that democracies tend to be at peace with each other, tend to forget is that Gaza and Israel are both democracies.
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If Gaza was ruled by a King, then if that King was to decide for war, that decision would make him [[Holier Than Thou|holier]], but might well get him killed.
But if a voter in Gaza votes for war, his vote makes him holier, but makes absolutely no difference to his chance of being killed, since it is only one vote of millions. From the point of view of the voter, the ideal outcome is that he votes for war, but is, alas, outvoted, by all those inferior people less holy than himself [...]
| ''[https://blog.jim.com/war/need-to-kill-a-lot-more-civilians-in-gaza/ Need to kill a lot more civilians in Gaza]'' on ''Jim's Blog
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