The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletariat to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or backgammon, with a slight moral tinge to it.

The only equals are those who are equally rich.

Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

Democracy produces both heroes and villains, but it differs from a fascist state in that it does not produce a hero who is a villain.

If the people be the governors, who shall be governed?

Despotism achieves great things illegally; democracy doesn’t even take the trouble to achieve small things legally.

Even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.

When we define democracy now, it must still be as a thing hoped for but not seen.

When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong.

Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.

What touches all shall be approved by all.