Full Idea
Democracy has always been the declining form of the power to organise.
Gist of Idea
Democracy is organisational power in decline
Source
Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 8.39)
Book Reference
Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.93
A Reaction
Even when Nietzsche is wrong (and who knows, here?) he always challenges you to think!