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The resilience of democracy lies in its self-cleaning effect.

— Jules Sedney

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The resilience of democracy lies in its self-cleansing effect. Control and correction are the cleansing agents of democracy. Where they are lacking, democracy dies a silent death.

The Future of Our Past (1997)

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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.

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The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of bourgeois stupidity.

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