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"I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy."

— Daniel Suarez Daemon (2006)

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"You never understood games. Maybe that's why the world was such a mystery to you."

Daemon (2006)

"Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities."

Daemon (2006)

Food is the very heart of freedom. How can people be free if they can’t feed themselves without getting sued for patent violations?

Freedom™ (2010)

Technology. It is the physical manifestation of the human will.

Daemon (2006)

Wealth aggregates and becomes political power. Simple as that. ‘Corporation’ is just the most recent name for it.

Freedom™ (2010)

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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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