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Critique of democracy3 quotes
Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few. — John Dryden · 1681Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, claptrap, and demagogy... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice. — Robert Briffault · 1930Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. — Benito Mussolini · 1928Democracy2 quotes
Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, claptrap, and demagogy... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice. — Robert Briffault · 1930Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. — Benito Mussolini · 1928Political theory2 quotes
Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few. — John Dryden · 1681Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy. — Benito Mussolini · 1928The masses1 quote
Nor is the people's judgment always true:
The most may err as grossly as the few. — John Dryden · 1681