Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, claptrap, and demagogy... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.
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Original Citation
Briffault, Robert. The Making of Humanity. London: G. Allen & Unwin Limited.
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Current Citation
Briffault, Robert. Rational Evolution (The Making of Humanity). Routledge, 2019, ch. 15.
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