Doug Casey Quotes

The dictatorship of the majority is a bugaboo which haunts the books of political theorists but has never been found in the flesh in modern history

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

In the United States, where the numerical majority have long been in full possession of collective despotism, they would probably be as unwilling to part with it as a single despot or an aristocracy.

The revolutionary government is the despotism of liberty

According to Netanyahu, he should rule like a Caesar, and the Knesset should be run by the tyranny of the majority.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

Despots and democratic majorities are drunk with power.

It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.

Democracy passes into despotism.

As long as enough people can be frightened, then all people can be ruled. That is how it works in a democratic system and mass fear becomes the ticket to destroy rights across the board.

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

I am sometimes accused of being a dictator because I provoked the extraordinary elections by nominating the interim government. Can you imagine any dictator who provokes free elections in his own country?

You can't become a dictator through checks and balances.

We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men. But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends.

Our supreme governors, the mob.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal.

When the people have no other tyrant, their own public opinion becomes one.

Which is better, to be ruled by one tyrant three thousand miles away, or by three thousand tyrants not a mile away?

The majority are not morally free to become a tyranny and destroy the rights of minorities.

It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority.... From the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.

Government, in which the majority rules in all things, cannot be based on justice.

The army and the government needs a dictator.

One Hundred and Seventy Three Despots would surely be as oppressive as one.

There is no such thing as a liberal dictatorship, because a dictator just cannot afford to be liberal.

When we talk about the Constitution of the United States, we are sometimes apt to quote—"Vox populi, vox Dei;" that is, The voice of the people is the voice of God. But in some places they ought to say, VOX POPULI, VOX DIABOLI; that is, the voice of the people is the voice of the Devil.