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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Dave Barry Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what you're told.
    Dave Barry
    American humorist, writer
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  • Armstrong Williams 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.
    Armstrong Williams
    American political commentator, entrepreneur and author (1962 - )
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  • Jeane Kirkpatrick Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse, and things won't get worse unless they get elected.
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  • Cass Sunstein 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.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein 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.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Auberon Herbert 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.
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Bayard Taylor 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.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Jonathan Franzen 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
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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