Benevolent Dictatorship is the best?

Question

Someone said something, roughly, to the effect of:

The Best Government is a Benevolent Dictatorship where the Benevolence of the Dictator is guaranteed.

Who was it?

"I don't have the foggiest idea who said it, but the statement is just plain naive. "...Where the benevolence of the Dictator is guaranteed." Try and guarantee that. Just try to."

I cant stop myself. I have to address this reply as ignorant. The quote is hardly Naive. It is an observation. What better government than an Expedient and Respectful one? "Itd be nice if it didnt rain" falls in the exact same frame of mind, and I expect youd call THAT naive too 'Pfft, yah, well, try and STOP the rain.'

Its called Philosophy.
It makes your Thinky-Part run.
Its nice.

Answer 1

Dictator who give the people money to ensure his position in the government is good if the wealth is distributed property. Profit sharing for all the income of the state that was supposed to be in order.

Answer 2

I don't have the foggiest idea who said it, but the statement is just plain naive. "...Where the benevolence of the Dictator is guaranteed." Try and guarantee that. Just try to.

In the words of Judge Learned Hand, in his famous book, "The Bill of Rights," ...

"Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies. No one can fail to recognize the perils to which the last forty years have exposed such governments. ... For myself, it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not. If they were in charge, I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs. Of course I know how illusory would be the belief that my vote determined anything; but nevertheless when I go to the polls I have a satisfaction in the sense that we are all engaged in a common venture."

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"Into each life a little rain must fall," is an even better philosophy.

Answer 3

with out tests and balances, a malevolence can breed the place benevolence reigned. Lenin had the main suitable of intentions, besides the fact that it replaced into the weak point and carte blanche nature of his dictatorship that opened the way for Stalin. i accept as true with some great solutions right here above me.

Answer 4

I don't know who said it but it is absolutely correct.

Answer 5

Don't know. Maybe a compassionate conservative.