“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’”
Isaac Asimov
“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.”
Winston S. Churchill
“I have never voted in my life… I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majority so it’s certain they will win.”
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
“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 at election time people will solemnly vote against their interests.” – Gore Vidal