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Letter "D" » Democracy
«Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.»
Author: Dr. Laurence J. Peter
(Educator, Writer)
| About:
Democracy,
Politics
| Keywords:
blame, democracy, Free to Choose
«Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised»
«Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management»
Author: Doug Larson
| About:
Democracy,
Government,
Management
| Keywords:
aloud, first class, form of government, government in, management, permitted
«Democracy is an abuse of statistics.»
«Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.»
«Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
appointment, corrupt, election, form of government, incompetent, incompetents, substitutes
«Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
democracy, form of worship, jackal, Jackals, jackass, Jackasses, worship
«Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
collective, democracy, pathetic, The Collective
«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»
«Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero»
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