Human, All Too Human [Menschliches, Allzumenschliches], Vol. 2, Part 2 "The Wanderer and His Shadow [Der Wanderer und sein Schatten]," aphorism 289 (1880) [tr. Holingdale (1986)] - Nietzsche, Friedrich | WIST Quotations
Democratic institutions are quarantine arrangements to combat that ancient pestilence, lust for tyranny: as such they are very useful and very boring. [Die demokratischen Einrichtungen sind Quarantäne-Anstalten gegen die alte Pest tyrannenhafter Gelüste: als solche sehr nützlich und sehr langweilig.] (Source (German)). Alternate translations: Democratic institutions are centres of quarantine…
