Democracy | Some revealing quotes

"We’ve been conditioned to think that only politicians can solve our problems. But at some point, maybe we will wake-up and recognize that it was the politicians who created our problems" Ben Carson

"We will continue to boost and vaccinate until we have brought the pandemic to an end." Karl Lauterbach

"It is important to send a clear message to those who are not vaccinated: You are now excluded from social life!" Tobias Hans

"There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies" Walter Lippmann

"We hear statements such as “This is a free country” or “This is a dictatorship where there is no freedom.” However, these are vague assertions in which the meaning of freedom is not real. One person may feel very free in a totalitarian regime, while another living in a democracy may feel the chains of slavery on their shoulders, weighing down every step they take. The chains of slavery only bind our hands: it is the spirit that makes a person free or a slave." Franz Grillparzer

"The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth." Bill Clinton

"Democracy is the worship of jackals by jackasses." Henry Louis Mencken

"One of the horrors of democracy is that every idiot can invoke it when it suits their interests." Wiglaf Droste

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you get to vote before you obey orders." Charles Bukowski

"Though it is disguised by the illusion that a bureaucracy accountable to a majority of voters, and susceptible to the pressure of organized minorities, is not exercising compulsion, it is evident that the more varied and comprehensive the regulation becomes, the more the state becomes a despotic power as against the individual. For the fragment of control over the government which he exercises through his vote is in no effective sense proportionate to the authority exercised over him by the government." Walter Lippmann

"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses." H. L. Mencken

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance." Henry Louis Mencken

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage." Henry Louis Mencken

"Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom." Friedrich August von Hayek