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Norman Mailer

"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."

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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."

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"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."

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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."

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"Democracy is government by the people, for the people. Without the responsibility of the people, and without the involvement of the people - all you have left is GOVERNMENT."

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"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."

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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

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"Democracy in China is like Viagra; no such thing as free elections."

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"The measure of man's ability to extend the sphere of social possibility can only start with the values of democracy."

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"Growth, in some curious way, I suspect, depends on being always in motion just a little bit, one way or another."
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"Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men."
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"There was that law of life, so cruel and so just, that one must grow or else pay more for remaining the same."
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