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the change is at hand-the old order is cracking. It has been said that 'the cure for democracy is more democracy'

— Art Young Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)

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A good illustrator may draw from models but knows how to forget them.

Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)

Journalism today is for the most part gentlemanly and decorous, in so far as the relations among newspapers in the big cities are concerned.

Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)

With more and more governments, however crude and experimental, dedicated to industrial democracy and universal brotherhood, the era of peace and joy in living will come on earth.

Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)

If he has illuminated the dark and serious subject with a suspicion of fun-it is meant to convey the hope he feels for all sinners like himself, that some relief of a slightly humorous nature may be found even in Hell.

Through Hell with Hiprah Hunt (1901)

Usually politics was my theme, varied now and then, on an off day, by some travesty on prevailing fads.

Art Young: His Life and Times (1939)

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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!

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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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