Ability Quote by H. L. Mencken

“Representative government is artifice, a political myth, designed to conceal from the masses the dominance of a self-selected, self-perpetuating, and self-serving traditional ruling class.”

— Giuseppe Prezzolini

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

— Noam Chomsky

There is a flaw in the operation of representative government. The flaw produces the growth of government.

— Allan H. Meltzer

A government at bottom is nothing more than a group of men, and as a practical matter most of them are inferior men. ...…

— H. L. Mencken

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men…

— James Hillman

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not,…

— James F. Cooper

“As long as you have broad representation from many parts of society, representative government works extremely well. And it works even better when the…

— Ben Carson

the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an…

— Margaret Halsey

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 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.

— Noam Chomsky

Government is at its best when you've got servant leaders that are acting for the good of the public.

— Doug Burgum