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Quotes about democracy
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Democracy without morality is impossible. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity. (Luxemburg Rosa)
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. (Luxemburg Rosa)
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. (Luxemburg Rosa)
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As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. (Luxemburg Rosa)
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. (Luxemburg Rosa)
This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement -- that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it -- that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Unless democracy is to commit suicide by consenting to its own destruction, it will have to find some formidable answer to those who come to it saying: I demand from you in the name of your principles the rights which I shall deny to you later in the name of my principles. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold. (Luxemburg Rosa)
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. (Luxemburg Rosa)
It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive. (Luxemburg Rosa)
The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and hard. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses. (Luxemburg Rosa)
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. (Luxemburg Rosa)
It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd. (Luxemburg Rosa)
There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship. (Luxemburg Rosa)
In a democracy everybody has a right to be represented, including the jerks. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Let the people think they govern and they will be governed. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Democracy is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder, and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequal alike. (Luxemburg Rosa)
These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not. (Luxemburg Rosa)
Freedom without obligation is anarchy. Freedom without obligation is democracy. (Luxemburg Rosa)
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. (Luxemburg Rosa)
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