Modern Democracy Quotes

10 quotes by 9 authors

No politician can praise unemployment or inflation, and there is no way of combining high employment with stable prices that does not involve some control… — John Kenneth Galbraith
The trouble in modern democracy is that men do not approach to leadership until they have lost the de e to lead anyone. — William Beveridge
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He… — Benjamin Tucker
He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is… — Benjamin Tucker
In a modern democracy, not only can a libertarian be elitist; a libertarian has to be elitist. To be a libertarian in a modern democracy… — Bryan Caplan
This is the first great problem of modern democracy...how to get a fair living by reasonable hours of work leaving enough leisure for both childhood… — John R. Commons
Any dictatorship would be better than modern democracy. There cannot be so incompetent a dictator, that he would show more stupidity than a majority of… — Pentti Linkola
Organized religion, wielding power over the community, is antithetical to the process of what modern democracy should define as liberty. The sooner we are without… — Lawrence M. Krauss
A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until… — Norman Mailer
I may be wrong in that, but not I think in putting the questions. In our modern democracy the government needs not a unanimous but… — Douglas Hurd

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