Democracy Quote by Mark Fisher

“Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Nietzsche, driven by the absolute demand of his existential truthfulness, could not abide the bourgeois world, even when its representative had human nobility.

— Karl Jaspers

My own view is that left-wing positions largely come about from resentment - I agree with Nietzsche about this - a resentment about the…

— Roger Scruton

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

— H. L. Mencken

“Democracy should always be viewed with a philosophical perspective rather than a political one, because after all democracy was born to a philosopher and…

— Aysha Taryam

“From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small…

— James Madison

Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements,…

— Albert Einstein

It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is…

— Joyce Carol Oates

Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations…

— Robert Paul Wolff

Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at…

— H. L. Mencken

For authoritarians such as Lenin and Žižek, the dichotomy in politics is state power or no power, but I refuse to concede that these…

— Simon Critchley

“There are six canons of conservative thought: 1) Belief in a transcendent order, or body of natural law, which rules society as well as…

— Russell Kirk