Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces
Henry Louis Mencken
Adultery is the application of democracy to love
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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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Democratic man, as I have remarked, is quite unable to think of himself as a free individual; he must belong to a group, or shake with fear and loneliness - and the group, of course, must have its leaders
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right
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