Home » Quote » Ambrose Bierce » „The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.“ „The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.“ — Ambrose Bierce Tags:Democracy Related quotes „A great democratic commonwealth should seek to produce and reward that individual distinction which results in the efficient performance of needed work, for such performance is of high value to the whole community. But hand in hand with this purpose must go the purpose which Abraham Lincoln designated as the “amelioration of mankind.” Only by an intelligent effort to realize this joint process of individual and social betterment can we keep our democracy sound.“ — Theodore Roosevelt „Democracy, in fact, is always inventing class distinctions, despite its theoretical abhorrence of them.“ — H.L. Mencken „If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y.“ — H.L. Mencken
„The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.“ — Ambrose Bierce Tags:Democracy
