Quote by Jean Baudrillard
Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacter

Democracy is the menopause of Western society, the Grand Climacteric of the body social. Fascism is its middle-aged lust. – Jean Baudrillard

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The local is a shabby thing. Theres nothing worse than bringing us back down to our own little corner, our own territory, the radiant promiscuity of the face to face. A culture which has taken the risk of the universal, must perish by the universal. – Jean Baudrillard

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Travel
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If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals dont speak, its because everythings perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection. – Jean Baudrillard

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Language
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A society which allows an abominable event to burgeon from its dung heap and grow on its surface is like a man who lets a fly crawl unheeded across his face or saliva dribble from his mouth — either epileptic or dead. – Jean Baudrillard

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Humanity
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Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. – Harry Emerson Fosdick

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Democracy: In which you say what you like and do what youre told. – Dave Barry

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In a democracy dissent is an act of faith. Like medicine, the test of its value is not in its taste, but in its effects. – J. William Fulbright

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Democracy

The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years. – Aneurin Bevan

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In Cyberspace, the 1st Amendment is a local ordinance. – John Perry Barlow

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Another belief of mine that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. – Margaret Atwood

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Life is a song. Love is the music. – Author Unknown

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Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity. – Leighton Meester

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