Quotes · Skopia

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Topic·Critique of democracy✕clear

Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few.

Absalom and Achitophel · 1681

★ 3.6

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

1930

★ 3.4

Interview · Newspaper

Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.

Benito Mussolini

The New York Times · 1928

★ 1.2