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{{quote|''A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere
''Or a cataclysmic earthquake I'd accept with some despair
''But no, you sent us Congress--
''Good God, sir, was that fair?
|'''John Adams''', ''[[1776 (musical)|1776]]''}}
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|'''Pierre J. Proudhon, founder of [[Political Ideologies|Anarchism]]'''}}
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|'''[[Discworld|Going Postal]]'''}}
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|'''Noah [[The Spoony Experiment|'The Spoony One']] Antwiler''' as Dr. Insano}}
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|'''[[Kingdom Hearts|Marluxia]]''', in Ch. 70 of ''[[The Renegades]]''}}
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|'''Alizome Tor Fel-A''', in ''[[Star Trek: Typhon Pact]]'': "Rough Beasts of Empire"}}
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|'''[[Robert Heinlein|Robert A. Heinlein]]''', ''Stranger in a Strange Land''}}
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|'''[[Immanuel Kant]]''', ''Perpetual Peace'', II, 1795.}}
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|'''David Friedman''', ''The Machinery of Freedom'', 88}}
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|'''[[Bertrand Russell]]''', ''The Conquest of Happiness'', VI, 1930.}}
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|'''Ken Livingstone''', Mayor of London 2000 - 2008, published an autobiography-cum-political tract in 1988 with this title. ISBN 9780006373353 (also attributed to Emma Goldman)}}
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|'''[[Orson Welles]]''' as Harry Lime in ''[[The Third Man]]'', 1949. (Note: The cuckoo clock is actually [[Did Not Do the Research|a German invention]])}}
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|'''[[James Madison]]''', ''Federalist Paper'' #10}}
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|'''[[Benito Mussolini]]'''}}
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|'''[[John Adams]]'''}}
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|'''[[Benjamin Franklin]]'''}}
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|'''[[Winston Churchill]]'''}}
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|'''[[Winston Churchill]]'''}}
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|'''Art Spander'''}}
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|'''Hans-Hermann Hoppe'''}}
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|'''[[H.L. Mencken]]'''}}
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{{quote|"Democratic law does not say, “Thou shalt not kill”. Instead, it designates certain people who have the right to kill — soldiers and State police. Democratic law does not order, “Thou shalt not steal”. It says that only certain people have the right to steal — tax and customs agents. What does “power to the people” mean when the people enjoy fewer rights than their supposed servants?"|'''Christian Michel'''}}▼
|'''[[H. L. Mencken]]'''}}
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▲{{quote|"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."|'''[[HL Mencken|H.L. Mencken]]'''}}
|'''[[H. L. Mencken]]'''}}
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{{quote|"Gang rape, after all, is democracy in action."|'''[[Terry Goodkind]]'''}}▼
|'''Christian Michel'''}}
▲{{quote|''Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.''|'''[[HL Mencken|H. L. Mencken]]'''}}
|'''[[Terry Goodkind]]'''}}
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|'''[[Beast Wars|Dinobot]]'''}}
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|'''[[Judge Dredd]]'''}}
{{quote|Democracy is an [[Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics|abuse of statistics]].
| [[Jorge Luis Borges]], as quoted in ''Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America: A Special Publication Devoted Entirely to the Voices and Opinions of Writers from Latin America'' by Octavio Paz}}
{{quote|One of the things that the fans of the theory of Democratic Peace, the theory that democracies tend to be at peace with each other, tend to forget is that Gaza and Israel are both democracies.
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If Gaza was ruled by a King, then if that King was to decide for war, that decision would make him [[Holier Than Thou|holier]], but might well get him killed.
But if a voter in Gaza votes for war, his vote makes him holier, but makes absolutely no difference to his chance of being killed, since it is only one vote of millions. From the point of view of the voter, the ideal outcome is that he votes for war, but is, alas, outvoted, by all those inferior people less holy than himself [...]
| ''[https://blog.jim.com/war/need-to-kill-a-lot-more-civilians-in-gaza/ Need to kill a lot more civilians in Gaza]'' on ''Jim's Blog''}}
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