• It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.

    Friedrich August von Hayek: It is when it is contended that "in a democracy right is what the majority makes it to be" that democracy degenerates into demagoguery.
    "The Constitution of Liberty". Book by Friedrich Hayek (p. 94), 1960.