Impossibile democracy and social equality, an article that gives different opinion on this matter through the great thoughts of famous and wise philosophers.
If our politicians, legislators, public administrators, legal judges, lawyers, public and private managers, and all the different members of the social, justice, political, economic, educational and democratic organizations were just ordinary intelligent people, I don’t mean geniuses or brilliant thinkers, but only a little bit better than the average human being, how can it be that our world is so stupid, cruel, violent, dirty, unfair, wrongful, painful, polluted, or to put it in simple words, the toilet of the universe, for the vast majority of its population, if not for all its inhabitants at large.
Carl William Brown
Impossible democracy and current parliaments. Current parliamentary democracy is a noisy tussle between politicians in power, often not even voted democratically, where the winner is whoever responds to the motto “whoever shouts the loudest wins the cow!”. Metalworkers and magistrates, railway workers and university professors, tram drivers and naval officers, and even state pensioners, even secondary school children are fighting against the exploitation that their teachers would exercise on them… The State is conceived as a lottery, which everyone plays and which can be won by studying a less mystical book than that of the Kabbalah, making a fuss in the newspapers, agitating, threatening and pressuring deputies and ministers.
Benedetto Croce
Democracy is the government of the people, the work of the people, the mockery of the people, the misery of the people. Democracy is everything, it is above all bureaucracy and demagogy. It is a large economic and financial industry whose main shareholders, however, are the powerful oligarchs of the world.
Carl William Brown
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
H. L. Mencken
Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.
Plato
Force governs the world (unfortunately!) and not knowing: therefore whoever rules it can and usually is ignorant.
Vittorio Alfieri
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. Mencken
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
Henry Louis Mencken
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Henry Louis Mencken
I am afraid of the loss of democracy, because I know what non-democracy is. Democracy is slowly lost, in general indifference, because it is convenient not to take sides, and there are those who shout louder and everyone says: he’ll take care of it. This is how freedom dies: under thunderous applause. Those who cause the greatest amount of blood to be shed are the same ones who believe they have law, logic, and history on their side. It is not from the individual, but from the State that society must defend itself today.
Albert Camus
The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
John F. Kennedy
Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
Oscar Wilde
The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don’t have to waste your time voting.
Charles Bukowski
A series of arithmetic paradoxes demonstrates how, in many cases, the outcome of elections does not reflect voters’ preferences. Not only that: in the United States, home of democracy and freedom, collecting more votes than your opponent does not guarantee victory. The solution? It probably doesn’t exist We recognize that the real enemy of democracy and freedom, in a society so different from previous ones in terms of structure, culture and technological level, is democracy itself, at least in its current form. We are witnessing a quiet and peaceful suicide, but we don’t want to admit it or we don’t realize it because everything happens in a silent and non-violent way, with the consent of a world that struggles to understand what is happening.
Sabino Acquaviva
Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.
Bertrand Russell
We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.
Louis D. Brandeis
The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this hidden mechanism of society constitute an invisible government that is the true ruling power of our country. We are governed, our minds are shaped, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of.
Edward Bernays
Why do not admit that this system, together with technical-scientific progress, allows a small, largely impersonal “entity” to hold all the power? That, worsening the situation, political power submits, perhaps out of necessity, to the imperatives of the financial economy, advanced technologies and science? That the volume of financial transactions is fifty times greater than that of transfers of goods and services? It is clear that the presumed democracy is now indisputably associated with the disarticulation of the welfare state. Just think of the dogmas imposed by the economic and financial power on the European Union and accepted by all. And let’s not forget that these phenomena are associated with the rising tide of corruption.
Sabino Acquaviva
Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
Henry Louis Mencken
This society cannot be radically reformed, it must be reinvented, but without using the ideological and political antiquities that have paved the history of the last two centuries with millions of deaths. Of course, it is true that democracy, as Churchill said, is the worst of systems, of course with the exception of all the others, which are worse. But it is also true that this apparent, almost virtual democracy, which has now become the dominant political system, accepted by almost everyone, is turning into the biggest political scam in history.
Sabino Acquaviva
Since in a democracy it is the people who decide, the powerful men of industry and the economy mobilize to instruct society to choose and decide in an absolutely self-defeating way.
Carl William Brown
It’s a good thing that people don’t understand how our banking and monetary system works, because if that happened I believe a revolution would break out before tomorrow morning.
Henry Ford
The world as it is cannot produce things very different from what it produces. At least for now it does not seem capable of significantly reducing the number of those who are hungry, it cannot help but confine hundreds of thousands of homeless, marginalized, defeated, crazy people in the stations, in the subways of the great metropolises of the planet, in the most degraded neighborhoods . And how could it not create the gods of information technology, the Bill Gates masters of the world, before whom the powerful of the earth often bow? How can we prevent the multiplication of tens of thousands of journalists who are lackeys of power willing to sell themselves, just to advance their careers and be present on the media stage where they perform twenty-four hours a day? How can we not witness the scandal of hundreds of millions of starving people, of miserable peoples who massacre each other without mercy and of the rich of the earth who spend their time in financial empires?
Sabino Acquaviva
Since in a democracy it is the people who decide, the powerful men of industry and the economy mobilize to instruct society to choose and decide in an absolutely self-defeating way.
Carl William Brown
Satire is sometimes useful to demoplutocratic regimes (government of the rich) because it creates in the people, thanks to its pseudo-humor, the illusion of living in a democracy; instead of creating protests, it creates the consensus that is thus bestowed upon the monarchs of stupidity.
Carl William Brown
As we know, no one ever gets along with the government. But how is this possible, given that he should have emerged victorious in a free and democratic election? In reality, if you look carefully at the numbers, you discover that the majority of citizens may not have voted for the candidate who was actually elected. This is not surprising: it is one of the mathematical paradoxes of electoral systems around the world highlighted by Ian Stewart in a recent article published in New Scientist magazine. “Ensuring free elections” states the author, “is up to the law, but ensuring that they are fair and algebraically correct is the task of mathematicians, who have always tried to develop mechanisms that combine arithmetic needs with political ones, for example guaranteeing the government a certain stability and the possibility of governing”. And after centuries of study we are still very far from perfection.
Vincenzo Galasso
A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley
The great poverty of the earth’s underprivileged and the great exclusion due to technological progress add to globalization, computerization and the strategies of the great rulers of the planet who operate in a space in which the company becomes a transnational network of interconnected semi-autonomous units electronically. Hence an immense intercontinental flow of material and immaterial production in which the intellect tends to become the dominant form of the workforce. This is a process of transformation still underway which, however, barring unforeseeable events, including political ones, will most likely end with the formation of a world market state: an empire without an emperor, a dictatorship without a dictator, a monocracy without a monocrat, a society managed by a single virtual party in which the parties are ghosts with little power.
Sabino Acquaviva
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
Henry Louis Mencken
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gustave Flaubert
The market buys and sells millions, perhaps billions, of perfectly useless information that pollutes the world of knowledge and information, making it impossible to make a choice, even a political and democratic one, that is not drunk and nullified by the dominant Russian salad.
Sabino Acquaviva
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy don’t rule the world, You’d better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that’s better left unsaid.
Bob Dylan
