Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

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Aristotle (Ancient Greek: Ἀριστοτέλης, romanized: Aristotélēs; 384–322 BC) was an ancient Greek philosopher and polymath. His writings span the natural sciences, philosophy, linguistics, economics, politics, psychology, and the arts. As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that...

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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life.

One swallow does not make a summer.

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing.

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Self-criticism is the secret weapon of democracy, and candor and confession are good for the public soul

Vote early and vote often.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

—George Bernard Shaw

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In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.

—Mogens Jallberg

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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule—and both commonly succeed, and are right.

—H. L. Mencken

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