According as to whether a people feels: "the rights, the keenness of vision, and the gifts of leading, etc., are with the few" or "with the many"—it constitutes En oligarchic or a democratic community.
Monarchy represents the belief in a man who is completely superior a leader, a saviour, a demigod.
Aristocracy represents the belief in a chosen few—in a higher caste.
Democracy represents the disbelief in all great men and in all elite societies: everybody is everybody else's equal, "At bottom we are all herd and mob."
753.
I am opposed to Socialism because it dreams ingenuously of goodness, truth, beauty, and equal rights (anarchy pursues the same ideal, but in a more brutal fashion).
I am opposed to parliamentary government and the power of the press, because they are the means whereby cattle become masters.
754.
The arming of the people means in the end the arming of the mob.
755.