Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values.
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Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.
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Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
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That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.
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Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.
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The ship of Democracy, which has weathered all storms, may sink through the mutiny of those aboard.
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Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
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You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in the people. One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who have wisdom, and there must be a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents and democracies.
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Democracy is supposed to give you the feeling of choice, like Painkiller X and Painkiller Y. But they're both just aspirin.
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Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
