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It is a
strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas
of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically
considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive,
just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.
-- Thomas Mann
1875-1955, German Author,
Critic
The cure for
the evils of democracy is more democracy.
-- H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor,
Author, Critic, Humorist
I confess I
enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and
hence incomparably amusing.
-- H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor,
Author, Critic, Humorist
Democracy is
also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by
jackasses.
-- H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor,
Author, Critic, Humorist
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Democracy is
the theory that the common people know what They want, and
deserve to get it good and hard.
-- H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor,
Author, Critic, Humorist
It is the
American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its
tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the
herd.
-- Henry Miller
1891-1980, American Author
There can be
no daily democracy without daily citizenship.
-- Ralph Nader
1934-, American Lawyer,
Consumer Activist
Man's capacity
for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination
to injustice makes democracy necessary.
-- Reinhold Niebuhr
1892-1971, American
Theologian, Historian
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