Dominant Quote by Noam Chomsky

Governments are not representative.

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Allan H. Meltzer

“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

“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

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

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium, of custom, of inertia; it is by no means a representative of reason.

— George Santayana

A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of property.

— Daniel Webster

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

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

Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns.…

— Edward Abbey

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

— Thomas Paine

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