• A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.

  Norman Mailer
  American writer 1923-2007
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. democracy
2. undefined
3. discovers
4. traveling
5. straight
6. stopped

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A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped. by : Norman Mailer

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