Curious Quote by Henry David Thoreau

... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do.…

— Aldous Huxley

I think we learn more from those times in our history where we stumbled as a democracy than we learn from the glorious chapters.

— George Takei

We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the world.

— Woodrow Wilson

The noble people will be nobly ruled, and the ignorant and corrupt ignobly.

— Samuel Smiles

The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they…

— H. L. Mencken

But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and…

— Aristotle

The most sensible and jealous people are so little attentive to government that there are no instances of resistance until repeated, multiplied oppressions have…

— John Adams

But what we have is not democracy; it is demonocracy! We are ruled by demons.

— Suresh Gopi

“Democracy, indeed, has a fair-appearing name and conveys the impression of bringing equal rights to all through equal laws, but its results are seen…

— Cassius Dio

There is still another inconvenieney in conquests made by democracies; their government is ever odious to the conquered states. It is apparently monarchical, but…

— Baron de Montesquieu

An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of Democracy

— Woodrow Wilson

The supreme rulers are hardly known by their subjects. The lesser are loved and praised. The even lesser are feared. The least are despised.

— Laozi