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"If we are to keep democracy, there must be a commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice."
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"Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy."
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"Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men."
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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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"To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy."
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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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"In Iran the whole reform and democracy movement has been based on the emerging free press."
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Explore more quotes by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
"The real literary editors have mostly been fired. Those that remain are all "bottom line" editors; everything depends on the money."
Money
"It's much easier to consume the visual image than to read something."
Reading
"Everything the Beats stood for was the opposite of the dominant culture today."
Cultural
"I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here."
Transportation
"The paintings may communicate even better because people are lazy and they can look at a painting with less effort than they can read a poem."
People
"I am waiting for them to prove that God is really American."
God
"These are international criminals, and the spineless Democrats are doing nothing about it."
Democracy
"They were looking for a stable, but we didn't have one. In fact, we weren't very stable ourselves."
Fact
"We have to raise the consciousness; the only way poets can change the world is to raise the consciousness of the general populace."
Change
"The future of publishing lies with the small and medium-sized presses, because the big publishers in New York are all part of huge conglomerates."
Future
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