P. J. O'Rourke Quotes About Democracies Have
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Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.
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Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
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Every government is a parliament of whores. The trouble is, in a democracy, the whores are us.
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It is a law of governance that democracies have to spend themselves dizzy. Citizens of democracies can, after all, tell their government to give them things.
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