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I think democracy is the most revolutionary thing in the world, because if you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community.

— Tony Benn Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007)

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Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.

Britain is the only colony in the British Empire and it is up to us now to liberate ourselves.

First they ignore you, then they say you're mad, then dangerous, then there's a pause and then you can't find anyone who disagrees with you.

All war represents a failure of diplomacy.

Choice depends on the freedom to choose and if you are shackled with debt you don’t have the freedom to choose.

Interview with Michael Moore in the movie Sicko (2007)

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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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