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"The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else."
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"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."
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"If you believe in democracy, make arrangements to distribute property as widely as possible."
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"Another tendency, which is extremely natural to democratic nations and extremely dangerous, is that which leads them to despise and undervalue the rights of private persons. The attachment which men feel to a right, and the respect which they display for it, is generally proportioned to its importance, or to the length of time during which they have enjoyed it. The rights of private persons amongst democratic nations are commonly of small importance, of recent growth, and extremely precarious; the consequence is that they are often sacrificed without regret, and almost always violated without remorse."
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"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
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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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"The problem of finding a collection of "wise men and leaving the government to them is thus an insoluble one. That is the ultimate reason for democracy."
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"The amazing fact is that America is founded on a document. It's a work in progress. It can be tested by each generation."
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"In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme."
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"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
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"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."
Design
"People always make war when they say they love peace."
Love
"It's bad taste to be wise all the time, like being at a perpetual funeral."
Time
"The true artist doesn't substitute immorality for morality. On the contrary, he always substitutes a finer morality for a grosser one."
Morality
"I can never decide whether my dreams are the result of my thoughts, or my thoughts the result of my dreams."
Dream
"Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth."
Truth
"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."
God
"Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion."
Death
"All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing."
Nothing
"All the great words, it seemed to Connie were cancelled, for her generation: love, joy, happiness, home, mother, father, husband, all these great, dynamic words were half dead now and dying from day to day."
Reflection
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