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For all its problems, I can’t see any governing system available to us in our pluralistic, multiracial democracy than classical liberalism.

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To be able to see God and hear God requires faith. And faith requires humility, and commitment. You cannot know what the sea feels and tastes like if you will never leave the beach.

Is there anything that the new woke progressivism touches that it doesn’t destroy?

If you believe a society built on raw force is going to be just, you are a fool.

They begin by destroying statues. They will end by destroying people.

The Possessed (2020)

I fear that there will be blood. I hope and pray that there won’t be, and I will be looking for any way to avoid it.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

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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