Democracy Is Bad/Quotes: Difference between revisions

Or a cataclysmic earthquake I'd accept with some despair<br />

But no, you sent us Congress--<br />

 

{{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."''|'''Pierre J. Proudhon, founder of [[Useful Notes/Political Ideologies|Anarchism]]'''}}

{{quote|"What kind of man would put a known criminal in charge of a major branch of government? Apart from, say, the average voter."|'''[[Discworld|Going Postal]]'''}}

 

 

 

{{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]]: ''Rough Beasts of Empire''.}}

{{quote|"If Voting Changed Anything They'd Abolish It"|'''Ken Livingstone''', Mayor of London 2000 - 2008, published an autobiography-cum-political tract in 1988 with this title. ISBN 9780006373353 (also attributed to Emma Goldman)}}

 

 

{{quote|''From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths.''|'''[[James Madison]]''', ''Federalist Paper'' #10}}

{{quote|"Democratic law does not say, “Thou shalt not kill”. Instead, it designates certain people who have the right to kill — soldiers and State police. Democratic law does not order, “Thou shalt not steal”. It says that only certain people have the right to steal — tax and customs agents. What does “power to the people” mean when the people enjoy fewer rights than their supposed servants?"|'''Christian Michel'''}}

 

 

{{quote|"Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action."|'''[[Terry Goodkind]]'''}}

 

 

 

{{quote|''"Democracy is a cancer eating away at the heart of our society. Any action taken to stamp it out, however regrettable, is justified."''|'''[[Judge Dredd]]'''}}