Aristocracy Quote by Baron de Montesquieu

Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion…

— Immanuel Kant

Democracy is a kingless regime infested by many kings who are sometimes more exclusive, tyrannical and destructive than one, even if he be a…

— Benito Mussolini

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder; and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

— Plato

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

Democracy is essentially a means, a utilitarian device for safeguarding internal peace and individual freedom. As such it is by no means infallible or…

— Anonymous

Democracy is less a system of government than it is a system to keep government limited, unintrusive; a system of constraints on power to…

— Ronald Reagan

A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among…

— Plato

Democracy passes into despotism.

— Plato

“Democracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the people, remember;…

— B.F. Skinner

Despotism subjects a nation to one tyrant; democracy, to many.

— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington

Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged…

— George Bernard Shaw

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton