Politics Quote by Mencius Moldbug

“Keep in mind that democracy merely gives power to the people; it does not ensure that power will be used wisely or humanely.”

— Rodney Stark

Kant says that we may regard ourselves as legislator of the moral law, and consider ourselves as its author, but not that we are…

— Allen W. Wood

“Reverence for what somebody said is a stultifying quality: there's a damned sight too much reverence in the world. Kant thought things not because…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Democracy is essentially government by the majority, and a majority may be stupid, unenlightened, foolish, misled, and corrupt.”

— John Hospers

“These various remedies, eugenic, educational, ethical, populist and socialist, all assume that either the voters are inherently competent to direct the course of affairs…

— Walter Lippmann

“The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average…

— W. E. B. Du Bois

“Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.”

— Erica Jong

“Democracy, I say, is not based on violence or terrorism, but on reason, on fair play, on freedom, on respecting other people’s rights as…

— Martin Gilbert

“Politicians need citizens who will permit them to behave reasonably.”

— William Edgar Stafford

“Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful…

— Shelby Foote

“Sometimes it seems that everybody in the world is in favor of democracy, just as long as it gives them the result they want.”

— Jack Lessenberry

“In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the…

— Jean Jacques Rousseau