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  • Michael Moore Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory event. If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy.
    Michael Moore
    American documentary filmmaker, activist, and author (1954 - )
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Gore Vidal Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Benazir Bhutto Democracy is the best revenge. After Benazir Bhutto's death, her son's brief public remarks were captured on video, and they were reported in international newspapers. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari announced, My mother always said, ' Democracy is the best revenge.'
    Democracy the best revenge, says Bilawal, Dawn (Internet). December 31, 2007/Zilhaj 20, 1428.
    Benazir Bhutto
    Pakistani politician (1953 - 2007)
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  • Jean Baudrillard Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
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  • Arman de Caillavet Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Bertrand Russell Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • E. B. White Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
    E. B. White
    American writer (1899 - 1985)
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  • Mikhail Gorbachev Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
    Mikhail Gorbachev
    Russian and former Soviet politician (1931 - )
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  • Aristotle Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bill Moyers Democracy may not prove in the long run to be as efficient as other forms of government, but it has one saving grace: it allows us to know and say that it isn't.
    Bill Moyers
    American journalist (1934 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Dorothy Parker Democracy means not „I am as good as you are", but „You are as good as I am".
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Oscar Wilde Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Karl Kraus Democracy means the opportunity to be everyone's slave.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Andrew Jackson Democracy shows not only its power in reforming governments, but in regenerating a race of men and this is the greatest blessing of free governments.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Paul Klee Democracy with its semi-civilization sincerely cherishes junk. The artist's power should be spiritual. But the power of the majority is material. When these worlds meet occasionally, it is pure coincidence.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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