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The vote should really be the expression of a concrete will, the choice of a representative capable of defending, within the general framework of the country and the world, the particular interests of his electors.

— Simone de Beauvoir

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I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.

All Said and Done (1972)

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.

Force of Circumstances Vol. III (1963)

I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.

The Blood of Others [Le sang des autres (1946)

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible.

The Second Sex (1949)

One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.

The Second Sex (1949)

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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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