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The worst that can happen under monarchy is rule by a single imbecile, but democracy often means the rule by an assembly of three or four hundred imbeciles.

— Robert Anton Wilson

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Yates thinks Bruno may have had a role in the invention of either Rosicrucianism or Freemasonry or both.

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The fallacy is that one can judge the part in isolation from the whole is "the Lie that all men believe."

There is absolutely nothing that can be taken for granted in this world.

The A∴A∴ must rank as the most secretive secret society in the world.

Everything Is Under Control (1998)

You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it.

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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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