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We have really put the duh in democracy, creating a perverse equality that entitles everyone to speak to every issue, regardless of how much they know about it.

— Laura Penny

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Who teh heLL R u 2 tELL me what 2 reed or how 2 spel?

More Money than Brains (2010)

Anyone taking classics or history for the prestige is either at Oxford or stuck in 1909.

More Money than Brains (2010)

"You think you're so smart" is never a compliment; the only thing worse than being smart is thinking that you are.

More Money than Brains (2010)

All we really need to do is learn 'em so they don't frig up the cash register or offend the customers.

More Money than Brains (2010)

It's a shame that pantyless party girls get more attention than the real heroes, the nurses and teachers and moms.

More Money than Brains (2010)

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class shall represent and repress them in parliament!

Vladimir Lenin The State and Revolution (1917)

The law itself is the instrument of the ruling class; hence it is a logical impossibility for another class to assume power legally.

Oliver Cox Caste, Class, and Race: A Study in Social Dynamics (1948)

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

Gustave Flaubert

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