Quotes About Office-holders

You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to;

We are in danger of government by professional office-holders Ã¢â'¬Â¦

You see my kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

Under capitalism democratism is restricted, cramped, curtailed, mutilated by all the conditions of wage slavery and of the poverty and misery of the masses. This and this alone is the reason why the office-holders in our political organizations and trade unions are corrupted (or, more precisely, have a tendency to be corrupted) by the conditions of capitalism and betray a tendency to being turned into bureaucrats, i.e. privileged persons cut off from the masses and standing above the masses

My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.