Joseph Schumpeter

“Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest”. –Joseph Schumpeter

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Andrei Grechko

“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolutionary”. –Andrei Grechko

Walter Lippmann

“A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats”. –Walter Lippmann

Friedrich von Hayek

“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking liberalism”. –Friedrich von Hayek

Thomas Carlyle

“Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero”. –Thomas Carlyle

Alexander Hamilton

“It has been observed that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government”. –Alexander Hamilton

Alexander Meiklejohn

“Democracy is the art of thinking independently together”. –Alexander Meiklejohn