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“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.”

Source: The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation

“The greatest characters the world has known, have rose on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy.”

World Character Able Known Democracy Rose Democratic Pace Aristocracy

Book:The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life

Source: The Political Writings of Thomas Paine: To which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Author's Life

“Uncontrollable consumerism has become a watchword of our culture despite regular and compelling calls for its end. The United States has more malls than high schools; Americans spend more time shopping than reading. ... Some of the most insightful writing about the American character over the nation's history has been about neither freedom nor democracy but about the crazed impulse to acquire things.”

Source: Loud and Clear

“Italy is such a delightful place to live in if you happen to be a man. There one may enjoy that exquisite luxury of Socialism--that true Socialism which is based not on equality of income or character, but on the equality of manners. In the democracy of the caffè or the street the great question of our life has been solved, and the brotherhood of man is a reality. But it is accomplished at the expense of the sisterhood of women.”

Source: Where Angels Fear to Tread: England Literature

“We know that communism is the right hypothesis. All those who abandon this hypothesis immediately resign themselves to the market economy, to parliamentary democracy-the form of state suited to capitalism-and to the inevitable and 'natural' character of the most monstrous inequalities.”

Knows States Character Form Natural Economy Democracy Capitalism Inequality Communism Inevitable Abandon Hypothesis Monstrous Market Economy Parliamentary Parliamentary Democracy

Author:Alain Badiou

“The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.”

People Should Character Poor Poverty Democracy Extremes True Friend Extreme Poverty

Book:Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

Source: Aristotle: The Politics and the Constitution of Athens

“The function of a newspaper in a democracy is to stand as a sort of chronic opposition to the reigning quacks. The minute it begins to out-whoop them it forfeits its character and becomes ridiculous.”

Character Democracy Minutes Function Ridiculous Newspapers Opposition Forfeit Quacks

Book:Diary of H. L. Mencken

Source: Diary of H. L. Mencken