Aristocratic Quote by Alexis de Tocqueville

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate…

— Edward Bernays

The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organised habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate…

— Edward Bernays

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

— Noam Chomsky

It is the growing custom to narrow control, concentrate power, disregard and disenfranchise the public; and assuming that certain powers by divine right of…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

In a democracy there is a centralization of governmental power in a simple majority.

— Anonymous

“In the final analysis, what is it that we call popular, democratic power? Beyond the expressed will of the people, as it is supposedly…

— Anonymous

Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of…

— Eli Pariser

“Democratic and aristocratic states are not in their own nature free. Political liberty is to be found only in moderate governments; and even in…

— Montesquieu

Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a…

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Putting it in plain terms, the general public must be reduced to its traditional apathy and obedience, and driven from the arena of political…

— Noam Chomsky

The essential nature of a democracy compels it to insist that individual power of all kinds, political, economic, or intellectual, shall not be perversely…

— Herbert Croly

“Democratic ideas cannot exist without the public spheres that make them possible.”

— Henry A. Giroux