It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
Human depravity originates in the vices of political constitution.
Government, as it was forced upon mankind by their vices, so has it commonly been the creature of their ignorance and mistake.
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.
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
It is the function of vice to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.
Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.