Liberty was discovered to be protection of the rights of the strong, leaving the weak defenseless. This is one of the paradoxes of liberty in social life. Freedom turned out to be freedom for oneself and slavery for others. He is the true lover of liberty who desires it for others as well as for himself. Liberty has become the protection of the rights of a privileged minority, the defense of capitalistic property and the power of money.” ~ The Fate of Man in the Modern World
“In reality, freedom is aristocratic, not democratic. With sorrow we must recognize the fact that freedom is dear only to those men who think creatively. It is not very necessary to those who do not value thinking. In the so-called democracies, based on the principle of popular sovereignty, a considerable proportion of the people are those who have not yet become conscious of themselves as free beings, bearing within themselves the dignity of freedom. Education to freedom is something still ahead of us, and this will not be achieved in a hurry.” ~ The Beginning and the End
"All Governments use force and all aver to have their foundation in reason. In truth, with or without universal suffrage, it is always an oligarchy which governs, which knows how to give to the popular will’ the expression that it desires from the votes of the majority in an assembly variously elected, to the plebiscite which gave the empire to Napoleon III and so forth, up to a wisely guided universal suffrage, which is bought and manipulated by our politicos. Who is this new god that bears the name ‘universal suffrage’? He is not better defined, nor any less mysterious and less foreign to the reality of things than so many other divinities: nor is his theology, as others, lacking in patent contradictions.
Pareto
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