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"Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience of consumerism."
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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."
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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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"I'm much more attracted personally to governments going their full term. It's very hard to have a fixed term election I know with ah... a parliamentary democracy, but I've always had an instinct to say there should be a fixed term."
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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."
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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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"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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"Self-government is in inverse ratio to numbers. The larger the constituency, the less the value of any particular vote. When he is merely one of millions, the individual elector feels himself to be impotent, a negligible quantity. The candidates he has voted into office are far away, at the top of the pyramid of power. Theoretically they are the servants of the people; but in fact it is the servants who give orders and the people, far off at the base of the great pyramid, who must obey."
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"Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview."
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"Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats."
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"Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry."
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"The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama."
Society
"It's wonderful to be able to sit down and write a play."
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"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it."
Change
"We may seem competent, but by the end of next century there will be new deserts, new ruins."
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"First there was the theatre of people and animals, then of people and the devil. Now we need the theatre of people and people."
People
"You have to go to the ultimate situation in drama."
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"The Greeks said very, very extreme things in their tragedies."
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"Fifteen years ago I walked out of a production of one of my plays at the RSC because I decided it was a waste of time."
Time
"When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost."
People
"I'm not interested in an imaginary world."
World
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