2,003 Quotes About Democracy

The whole purpose of government is to protect the weak from the rich, to make sure the rich don’t eat the poor, the way they used to in the Stone Age, or medieval Europe, when there was no government and no laws stopping the strong from robbing the weak.

Les masssacres planificades de dones, nens i estudiants, a Mèxic i en altres llocs del món, ens parlen a tots nosaltres: no són víctimes excepcionals d'una irracionalitat incontrolable. Són els residus habituals d'un sistema econòmic i polític que, com la moneda que ens domina, té a la seva cara la democràcia representativa, i a la seva creu, un camp de guerra.

As demonstrated in Russia and numerous other countries, when faced with a choice between democracy without capitalism or capitalism without democracy, Western elites unhesitatingly embrace the latter.

One cannot equate "capitalism" and "democracy.

Money has replaced the vote.

People were surprised in the 1990s when multinationals began to contribute heavily to New Labour, favoured even above the Conservative Party. But this move of Labour to New Labour was much more important to capitalism than simply having one party to support, for if you can have both big parties you have achieved the ultimate switch from a capitalist democracy to a totalitarian capitalist democracy, such as was accomplished in the USA many years previously.

As much as I say that market economy is a more aggressive, expansile form of command economy, I say now that democracy is a more aggressive, expansile form of dictatorship. The sin of democracy and any types of -cracy is their numbers.

Due to their fetish of univocity, the men of the Enlightenment were largely unable to comprehend the idea of the common good. The atoms of Democritus and Newton's particles of light / made philosophes think they could ground the common good in private right

the government tends to act like a corporation treating the public as its consumers rather than its citizens