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Democracy, the only practical compromise between totalitarianism and anarchy.

— Christopher Stasheff The Warlock in Spite of Himself (1969)

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“You can judge a god, an ideal, by the people who worship it, Tom.”

The Warlock in Spite of Himself (1969)

The important thing about a revolution is that it begin; you can always take control of it later.

The Warlock in Spite of Himself (1969)

The moment of silence stretched out as thin as the content of a congressman’s speech.

The Warlock in Spite of Himself (1969)

“Rod, you are jumping to conclusions.”
“No, just coming up with a brilliant flash of insight.”

The Warlock in Spite of Himself (1969)

But revolutionaries are always out of place when the revolution is over, and are likely to prove an embarrassing factor to the police forces of the new government.

The Warlock in Spite of Himself (1969)

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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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