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Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.
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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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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.
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Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.
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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.
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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.
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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
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Democratic societies can no longer give religious fanatics a free hand to abuse and murder non believers. Such action betrays contempt for the basic human rights which animate any democracy with meaning.
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Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
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Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.
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Democrats pride themselves on their commitment to science. Citing climate change, they contend that they are the party of truth, while Republicans are 'denialists.' But with respect to genetically modified organisms, many Democrats seem indifferent to science, and to be practicing a denialism of their own - perhaps more so than Republicans.
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Democrats want to use government power to make people's lives go better; Republicans respond that people know more than politicians do. We think that both might be able to agree that nudging can maintain free markets, and liberty, while also inclining people in good directions.
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Democrats' attack on the Republican majority leader is nothing but a coordinated agenda to stop an effective leader from accomplishing the people's business.
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Deny human rights, and however little you may wish to do so, you will find yourself abjectly kneeling at the feet of that old-world god, Force.
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Departed suns their trails of splendor drew Across departed summers: whispers came From voices, long ago resolved again Into the primeval Silence, and we twain, Ghosts of our present selves, yet still the same, As in a spectral mirror wandered there.
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Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular.
How to Be Alone: Essays (2007) 87 -
Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
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