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Wednesday, 3 December 2008
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"As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests" (Vidal, Gore - Language)

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Browse Quotations about Democracy

A modern democracy is a tyranny whose borders are undefined; one discovers how far one can go only by traveling in a straight line until one is stopped.
All the ills of democracy can be cured by more democracy.
America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.
Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity.
Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid.
Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike.
Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political -- legislative and administrative -- decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people.


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