“Mass democracy, mass morality and the mass media thrive independently of the individual, who joins them only at the cost of at least a partial perversion of his instincts and insights. He pays for his social ease with what used to be called his soul - his discriminations, his uniqueness, his psychic energy, his self.” SoulSelfUsedIndividualEnergySocialPayDemocracyMediaMoralityCostMassInstinctInsightDiscriminationUsed To BeEaseThriveUniquenessPsychicsPerversionMass Media Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.” PeopleMenStillsProcessDemocracyHe ManHigherCostPrejudiceMethodBlameInvestingAcquireSpiteGradesCost Of Living Author:Laurence J. Peter
“But it also came at a significant cost for human rights, and today's restricted freedom of expression, self-censorship and stunted multiparty democracy.” HumansSelfTodayFreedomPartyDemocracyRightsExpressionCostHuman RightsSignificantCensorshipFreedom Of ExpressionDemocracy FreedomSelf Censorship Author:Phil Robertson
“This anonymous clan of slack-jawed troglodytes has cost me the election, and yet if I were to have them killed, I would be the one to go to jail. That's democracy for you.” IfsWould BeDemocracyCostElectionJailClansFunny SimpsonsFunniest Simpsons Author:Charles Montgomery
“A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.” DemocracyCostOrganizationDemocraticDare Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“...dissent, protest, presures of a wide variety that escape elite control can modify the calculus of costs of planners, and offer a slight hope that Washington can be compelled to permit at least some steps towards "justice, freedom and democracy" within its domains.” JusticeStepsDemocracyCostOffersWideVarietyProtestPermitElitesCompelledDomainDissentCalculusPlanners Author:Noam Chomsky
“Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at that disgusting game he must prevail at the cost of his self-respect. Not many superior men make the attempt. The average great captain of the rabble, when he is not simply a weeper over irremediable wrongs, is a hypocrite so far gone that he is unconscious of his own hypocrisy.. a slimy fellow, offensive to the nose.” MenSelfGamesStruggleGoneDemocracyCostOfficeFellowsMereAverageSuperiorsNosesHypocrisyUnconsciousSelf RespectDisgustingCaptainsOffensiveHypocriteProletariatSuperior ManFlattererSo Far Gone Author:H. L. Mencken
“Highly graduate taxation realizes most completely the supreme danger of democracy, creating a state of things in which one class imposes on another burdens which it is not asked to share, and impels the State into vast schemes of extravagance, under the belief that the whole costs will be thrown upon others.” StatesWholeBeliefRealizingClassDemocracyShareDangerCostCreatingBurdenSupremeThrownGraduatesSchemesTaxationExtravagance Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky
“We could not bring democracy and freedom to Vietnam at a cost acceptable to ourselves. The idea that that was what we were trying to do, is again, a tautology, it's true by definition because we were doing, and the state is noble by definition. That's called "extreme liberalism".” TryingIdeasStatesDemocracyCostDefinitionsExtremesNobleLiberalismVietnamAcceptableTautology Author:Noam Chomsky
“I am not sure that I know enough about the pre-history of 9/11 to agree or disagree. But I did think at the time that the [George W.] Bush administration took a number of cues from the Israeli government, not only by drawing on and intensifying anti-Arab racism, but by insisting that the attack on US government and financial buildings was an attack on "democracy" and by invoking "security at all costs" to wage war without a clear focus (why the Taliban?), and by suspending both constitutional rights and the regular protocol for congressional approval for declaring war.” ThinkingKnowsWarEnoughGovernmentNumbersDemocracyClearFocusRightsSecurityBuildingCostRacismAgreeFinancialDrawingAdministrationNot SureDisagreeApprovalIsraeliTalibanDeclaringInsistingProtocolConstitutional RightsDeclaring War Author:Judith Butler
“We could not bring democracy to South Vietnam at a cost that we were willing to accept. So it was a disaster. That' is the left extreme.” LeftAcceptingDemocracyWillingCostSouthExtremesDisasterVietnam Author:Noam Chomsky
“How is it possible that a process can be democratic when it comes by way of money? If there is money then it can be elected a senator, it can be elected a representative. Do you know how much it cost to be elected president of the United States? The amount has reached, billions of dollars, 2 billion, 3 billion, 4 billion dollars, that's how much a presidential campaign costs. How much does a senatorial campaign cost? It costs 80 to 90 million dollars; or the campaign of a representative, 40 to 50 million. Is that really a democracy?” IfsKnowsWayDoeStatesProcessPresidentUnitedMillionsUnited StatesKnow HowDemocracyAmountCostDollarsDemocraticBillionsCampaignsPresidentialDo You KnowRepresentativesSenatorsMillion DollarsPresidential Campaign Author:Alejandro Castro Espin
“Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.” PoliticalPoliticsDemocracyIssuesCostElectionHistoricalLibertarianCandidatesGoreLimiting GovernmentGreat Libertarian Author:Gore Vidal