In a modern democracy there is no place for a class of educated gentry who enjoy their studies at the expense of the ignorant toiling masses.
Not exact matches
@agc - I wouldn't say this answer focuses on
democracies at all, but since «populism» is a
modern term
there is some difficulty
in associating it with writings from the past.
There are two fundamental ideas
in modern democracies that seem to contradict each other, while both being so fundamental...
Throughout the evidence session, Mr Copson emphasised that
there was no constitutional reason to have automatic places for the Bishops, and anyone who argued for their retention was simply arguing to extend a religious privilege which has no place
in a
modern, liberal and diverse
democracy.
There are two fundamental ideas
in modern democracies that seem to contradict each other, while both being so fundamental that none could be severely restricted without burying the concept of a capitalistic
democracy.