"Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice."

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Source : Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity) ch. 15 (1930) SeeWinston Churchill 34

Robert Briffault

#Ignorance Quotes #Government Quotes #Order Quotes

“I accept a role only if it's something I really, really like”
“To be human is to seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.”
“The bottom line is, if somebody doesn't go through proper security screening, they're not going to go on the flight.”
“Whatever be our individual, social or other interests, we should not forget that we have only one cosmic home, Earth.”
“I love 'Anne of Green Gables.' I have for years. That's one of my favourite things. She's such a can-do kind of girl; that's why I'm crazy about her.”
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
“The real struggle between an American government and the people was one of power, which was settled when they designed their Constitution, which conceded the sovereignty of the people when it came to politics, and the sovereignty of the consumer when it came to economics.”
“The [Liberal] federal government's trouble is that they have a wishbone where they should have a backbone.”

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