Democracy | Some revealing quotes

"Adultery is the application of democracy to love." H. L. Mencken

"Democracy has turned out to be not majority rule but rule by well-organized and well-connected minority groups who steal from the majority." Lew Rockwell

"Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'" Ezra Pound

"We enter parliament in order to supply ourselves, in the arsenal of democracy, with its own weapons. If democracy is so stupid as to give us free tickets and salaries for this bear's work, that is its affair. We do not come as friends, nor even as neutrals. We come as enemies. As the wolf bursts into the flock, so we come." Joseph Goebbels

"In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem." George Carlin

"If you vote and you elect dishonest, incompetent people into office who screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You caused the problem; you voted them in; you have no right to complain" George Carlin

"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting." Charles Bukowski

"The Soviet transition to a new political structure shows that the Soviet strategists are thinking, planning and acting in broad terms, way beyond the imagination of Western politicians. For this reason Western politicians cannot grasp the fact that the Soviet intention is to win by 'democratic' means. Through transition to a new system, the Soviets are revitalising their own people and institutions, and they are succeeding. Contrary to Western belief, they are holding their ranks together." Anatoli Golizyn

"Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent." Laurence J. Peter

"Either one lives for politics or one lives off politics." Max Weber

"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so." Gore Vidal

"Here's to the day when the complete works of Leon Trotsky are published and widely distributed in the Soviet Union. On that day the USSR will have achieved democracy!" Charles Wright Mills

"The fact is that, under a capitalistic system, the ultimate bosses are the consumers. The sovereign is not the state, it is the people." Ludwig von Mises

"Our form of democracy is bribery, on the highest scale." Gore Vidal