"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."

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"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."

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"Change represents the real spirit of democracy and the real America."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

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"Our nations (India and USA) may have been shaped by differing histories, cultures, and faiths. Yet, our belief in democracy for our nations and liberty for our countrymen is common. The idea that all citizens are created equal is a central pillar of the American constitution. Our founding fathers too shared the same belief and sought individual liberty for every citizen of India."

Narendra Modi, Indian Leader

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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."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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"Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state."

Noam Chomsky, American Activist

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"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."

Aristotle, Greek Philosopher

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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."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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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."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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"Democracy is probably the only discovery by mankind which mostly brought it only happiness."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Democracy is too good to share with just anybody."

Nigel Rees, British Author

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"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner."

James Bovard, American Author

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"The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence."

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"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."

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"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good."

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"We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine."

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"Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince."

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"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs."

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"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."

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"Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends."

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"Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies."

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"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."

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