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"Communism destroys democracy. Democracy can also destroy Communism."
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"In order to build basic democracy here we'll need lives of two generations - at least forty years."
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
"So I think one can say on empirical grounds - not because of some philosophical principle - that you can't have democracy unless you have a market economy."
"Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven."
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
"And they understand that to be an effective member of a democracy, you have to accept responsibility."
"Democracy can exist only in the countries where people are brave! Coward nations always live under the authoritarian regimes!"
"That's what the Senate is about. It's the last bastion of minority rights, where a minority can be heard, where a minority can stand on its feet, one individual if necessary, and speak until he falls into the dust."
"Television has made dictatorship impossible but democracy unbearable."
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"Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real."
"There are not fifty ways of fighting, there's only one, and that's to win. Neither revolution nor war consists in doing what one pleases."
"Genius is not perfected, it is deepened. It does not so much interpret the world as fertilize itself with it."
"The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself."
"To the humblest among them, who may be listening to me now, I want to say that the masterpiece to which you are paying historic homage this evening is a painting which he has saved."
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