Quotes with pilate

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• It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

  ― Joseph A. Schumpeter
  Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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• What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

  ― Francis Bacon
  English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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• representative
• standpoint
• autocracy
• certainly
• protect
• yielded

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