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“The only distinction that democracies reward is a high degree of conformity.”

Democracy Degrees Rewards Distinction Conformity

Book:Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

Source: Epigrams by Ambrose Bierce

“As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.”

Source: Lump It Or Leave It

“Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.”

Ifs Should Facts Democracy Endure Prosperity Cease Distinction Linked Prevention Peacekeeping

Author:Susan Rice

“Talent and worth are the only eternal grounds of distinction. To these the Almighty has affixed His everlasting patent of nobility. Knowledge and goodness,--these make degrees in heaven, and they must be the graduating scale of a true democracy.”

Heaven Democracy Talent Goodness Degrees Eternal Scales Distinction Graduates Almighty Everlasting Nobility Patents True Democracy

Author:Catharine Sedgwick

“As the consumer is the public general, without distinction of rank or fortune, the free market is the most obvious expression of the sovereignty of the people and the best guarantee of democracy.”

People Democracy Expression Fortune Obvious Consumers Guarantees Distinction Sovereignty Free Market

Author:Faustino Ballve