Democracy | Some revealing quotes

"The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom. That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there." George Orwell

"Democratic politicians want to solve the crisis of poor education by taking more of your money and using it to reduce classroom sizes in the government schools. Republican politicians want to solve the crisis by taking more of your money to provide vouchers to a handful of the poorest students in each area, paying for a part of the tuition expense at private schools. But before long this 'reform' would make those private schools indistinguishable from the government schools ... Vouchers are an excellent way for the government to increase control over private schools." Harry Browne

"Democratic societies can't force people. Therefore they have to control what they think." Noam Chomsky

"The third state examination in the judiciary is the party membership book." Unbekannt

"Anarchy is... a form of government or constitution in which public and private consciousness, formed through the development of science and law, is alone sufficient to maintain order and guarantee all liberties." Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

"We must, therefore, emphasize that 'we' are not the government; the government is not 'us.' The government does not in any accurate sense 'represent' the majority of the people. But, even if it did, even if 70 percent of the people decided to murder the remaining 30 percent, this would still be murder and would not be voluntary suicide on the part of the slaughtered minority. No organicist metaphor, no irrelevant bromide that 'we are all part of one another,' must be permitted to obscure this basic fact." Murray Rothbard

"Capitalism under democracy has a further advantage: its enemies, even when it is attacked, are scattered and weak, and it is usually easily able to array one half of them against the other half, and thus dispose of both." H. L. Mencken

"The more freedom, the less equality; the more equality, the less freedom." Max Horkheimer

"If voting could actually change anything, it would be illegal." Noam Chomsky

"In America there are none poor, and none even that can be called peasants. Each citizen has some property, and all citizens have the same rights as the richest individual, or landed proprietor, in the country." Lafayette

"You are not a free citizen participating in a noble democracy. You are simply tax-generating livestock, occasionally allowed to vote for which butcher gets to hold the knife." Lysander Spooner

"Politicians are not born; they are excreted." Cicero

"Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected." Thomas Sowell

"Freedom to speak... can be maintained only by promoting debate." Walter Lippmann