“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
“In the democracy of the dead all men at last are equal. There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.” ——John James Ingalls
“I take a grave view of the press. It is the weak slat under the bed of democracy.” ——A.J. Liebling
“The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.” ——Robert M. Hutchins
“Voting is actually an exercise in futility and only used to convey false credibility to a controlled political system totally divorced from the people.” ——Ron Holland
“Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves.” ——Herbert Marcuse
“In a society governed passively by free markets and free elections, organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy.” ——Matt Taibbi
“As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.” ——Gore Vidal
“Popularity should be no scale for the election of politicians. If it would depend on popularity, Donald Duck and The Muppets would take seats in senate.” ——Orson Welles
“Only a large-scale popular movement toward decentralization and self-help can arrest the present tendency toward statism… A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude. To make them love it is the task assigned, in present-day totalitarian states, to ministries of propaganda, newspaper editors and schoolteachers.” ——Aldous Huxley