Democracy | Some revealing quotes

"All dictatorships feed on the fear of their subjects." Richard von Weizsäcker

"The state is, by its very nature and essence, a social institution imposed by a victorious group of people on a defeated group of people for the sole purpose of regulating the rule of the former over the latter and securing it against internal uprisings and external attacks. And this rule has no other ultimate purpose than the economic exploitation of the defeated by the victors." Franz Oppenheimer

"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

"Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are." G. Edward Griffin

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptible." Frank Patrick Herbert