Democracy Quote by Giuseppe Prezzolini

“The people are committed to ruinous policies, all without noticing. They have neither the experience nor the time to study all these laws and…

— Mikhail Bakunin

Governments are not representative. They have their own power, serving segments of the population that are dominant and rich.

— Noam Chomsky

“Representative democracy, however, harmonizes marvelously with the capitalist economic system. This new statist system, basing itself on the alleged sovereignty of the so-called will…

— Mikhail Bakunin

The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage…

— H. L. Mencken

The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions…

— John Stuart Mill

The effect of a representative democracy is to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body…

— James Madison

When the people are too much attached to savage independence, to be tolerant of the amount of power to which it is for their…

— John Stuart Mill

“When a government turns from following the will of its people to willing its people to follow — acting according to its own prerogatives…

— Ben Carson

“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”

— T.S. Eliot

“By making the government a combination of elected officials and citizen-backed initiatives and referenda, there can truly be a government of the people, by…

— Victoria Stoklasa

Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and…

— Thomas Sowell

I'm about real representation in government.

— Katie Hill