Ochlocracy Quotes
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“Herd mentality”
“Tyranny of the majority”
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“The commonest of the old charges against democracy was that it passed into ochlocracy.”
“Our motto must be: liberty, fraternity and inequality. Democracy must never degenerate into ochlocracy.”
“Ochlocratia, such a state, as in which the rude and rusticall people moderate all thinges after their own luste.”
“Ochlocracy (even more so than aristocracy) is based upon change and instability; ochlocracy is revolution in permanence.”
“Ochlocracy, the dictatorship of the mob, is the goal toward which the development of the mass-democracy of Caesarism is leading.”
“Members of the oligarchy curry popularity with the mob (ὄχλος), as the Civic Guards at Larisa courted popularity with the mob because it elected them.”
“We will not carry on any further our picture of the ochlocracy, in which all social union was entirely dissolved, and the state surrendered to the arbitrary will of a turbelent populace.”
“In putting no trust in the multitude (which is why they resort to the measure of stripping the people of arms, and why ill-treatment of the mob and its expulsion from the city and settlement in scattered places is common to both forms of government, both oligarchy and tyranny.”
“Ochlocracy never had brilliant advocates like monarchy, aristocracy, or socialism. There is nobody in the "democratic" camp who can be compared for brilliancy — I do not say orthodoxy in each case — to de Tocqueville, Marx, Maurras, de Reynold, Trotzky, Spengler, Proudhon, Plato, Bainville, Aristotle, Ortega, and St. Thomas. Democracy never had, and probably never will have, an appeal for the man of original genius.”