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SHOOTING DEATH MATCH between the quotes on Democracy issue

Against:

 “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” Fisher Ames

“Democracy consists of choosing your dictators after they’ve told you what you think it is you want to hear.” Alan Coren

“Democracy: the substitution of election  by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.” George Bernard Show

“The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.” Gustave Flaubert

“Monarchy degenerates into tyranny, aristocracy into oligarchy, and democracy into savage violence and chaos.” Polybius

“In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing.” Anatole France

“In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.” Edmund Burke

“Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus.” Thomas Carlyle

“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.” Henry Louis Mencken

“Democracy: An institution in which the whole is equal to the scum of the parts.” Keith Preston

“Every government is a parlament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.”  P. J. O’Rourke

“Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they’re both just aspirin.” Gore Vidal

“It is strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.” Thomas Mann

“The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.” D.H. Lawrence

“Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.”  James Boward

“Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is a fallacy.” Benito Mussolini

 

In Favor of Democracy:  

“Democracy is the government of the people, by the people, for the people.”  Abraham Lincoln

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