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Letter "D" » Democracy
«Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.»
«Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised»
«Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management»
«Democracy is an abuse of statistics.»
«Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.»
«Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.»
«Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.»
«Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.»
«Democracy is based upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even half-wits would argue it to pieces»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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About:
Democracy
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argue,
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Complex system,
fallacies,
half-wit,
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rigid,
taboo,
taboos,
wits
«Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero»