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Democracy doesn't give the Average Man any real power at all. It swamps him among, under his friends — that is to say, it kills his individuality; and his individuality is the one thing he has which is worth anything.

— Robert Hugh Benson The Dawn of All (1911)

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Remorse is easy enough, but repentance means love; and a soul that has lost her Lover has lost her own power of loving.

Christ in the Church (1911)

Religion always is and always has been at the root of every world-movement.

The Dawn of All (1911)

Man’s highest life does not consist in self-expression, but in self-sacrifice.

Christ in the Church (1911)

Every man may err, but not the whole gathered together; for the whole hath a promise, but so hath not every particular man.

By What Authority? (1905)

If a soul lives long enough on the plane of sensuality or of ambition, she finds that Christ is worth less than nothing there.

Christ in the Church (1911)

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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.

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