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Democracy is entering into crisis, because it, I mean modern quantitative democracy, was conceived assuming that there were stable, fixed values, shared by all.

— Ersilio Tonini

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Osteria are a universal good.

Poor are we, if we had hope in Christ, but without being sure that it is the Truth, if we had faith and hope in Christ only for this world: we would be the most miserable of men, as St. Paul says.

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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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