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Maynard James Keenan

"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily."

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"Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily."

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"Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles."

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"For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery."

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"In the US, there is basically one party - the business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population."

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"On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does."

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"Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated."

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"There are no doubts that western governments are willfully inducing radiation sickness into segments of their city populations."

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"Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us."

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