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What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain pur

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. – Walter Lippmann

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Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings. – Walter Lippmann

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You cannot endow even the best machine with initiative; the jolliest steam-roller will not plant flowers. – Walter Lippmann

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If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on the human face — forever. – George Orwell

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In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences. – Robert Greene Ingersoll, “The New Testament,” Some Reasons Why, 1881

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Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are. – John W. Gardner

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One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well. – Louis Kronenberger, Company Manners, 1954

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