The only equals are those who are equally rich.

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

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence, the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

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

Vox populi, vox humbug.

Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

In a true democracy, everyone can be upper-class and live in Connecticut.

What touches all shall be approved by all.

The worship of opinion is, at this day, the established religion of the United States.

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.

Whenever in history equality appeared on the agenda, it was exported somewhere else, like an undesirable.

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