Gaetano Mosca Quotes & Sayings

We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself ... which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country. — Gaetano Mosca

If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable. — Gaetano Mosca