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We do not have democracy today, true democracy. There is no true democracy in the world - not in China, Russia or Britain.

— Benjamin Creme The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

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Without sharing there will never be justice. Without justice there will never be peace. Without peace there is no future for us.

Mankind will soon see that there is no alternative to sharing the produce of the world. Every other method has been tried and failed, and has led inevitably to war, suffering, degradation and misery.

The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom (1980)

In short, the crash will lead to a reordering of priorities.

To be spiritual really means to take in the world as a whole, to think in global terms. This is needed above all at the present time.

The tensions existing in this discrepancy of living standards have within them the seeds of a third world war. That war would be nuclear and would destroy all life on the planet.

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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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