Quote from Bertrand de Jouvenel 

"Democracy, then, in the centralizing, pattern-making,
absolutist shape which we have given to it is,
it is clear, the time of tyranny's incubation."

Quote by:
Bertrand de Jouvenel
(1903-1987) French philosopher, political economist, and futurist
Source:
Du Pouvoir. Histoire naturelle de sa croissance [1945] (Paris: Hachette, 1972), p. 36; English translation: On Power: The Natural History of Its Growth (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1993), p. 15.
 
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