"Universal-suffrage democracy may have been a good idea 120 years ago, when most adults did productive work into their sixties, then died. In today’s top-heavy welfare states, it just empowers tax-eaters to loot the national wealth."
React to this quote
More by John Derbyshire
See allResonant Thoughts
"It is not true, that the granting of the independence of America was “an advantage to England.” It was, on the contrary, the greatest evil that and ever befell her. It was the primary cause of the pre…"
"One of the reasons I was asked to do the portrait is that, with luck, I can start and finish a life-size portrait in one sitting . After years of working on my portraits for months at a time, I found …"
Explore Further
Related Quotes
"A year ago we liberated them from the Fascist Monster, and they still sit doing their best to smile politel…"
— Norman Lewis"Neither of us said a word as we picked our way down the path for the next quarter of an hour, and the sky r…"
— Neal Stephenson"To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of g…"
— Ralph Waldo Emerson"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred …"
— Karen Blixen"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only differ…"
— Neil Gaiman"As we liked to do as children, extracting from the soft forest floor the light chestnut trees only a few ce…"
— André Breton
