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“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

tags: democracy, suicide

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“Be not intimidated...nor suffer yourselves to be wheedled out of your liberties by any pretense of politeness, delicacy, or decency. These, as they are often used, are but three different names for hypocrisy, chicanery and cowardice.”
― John Adams

tags: chicanery, cowardice, decency, hypocrisy, politeness

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“Minorities are always better off in a culture which protects dissent than in a culture which protects us from dissent.”
― Jonathan Rauch, The Constitution of Knowledge: A Defense of Truth

tags: culture, dissent, diversity, freedom-of-speech, hate-speech, liberalism, pluralism, speech-regulation

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“Whatever we may think of the merits of torturing children for pleasure, and no doubt there is much to be said on both sides, I am sure we all agree that it should be done with sterilized instruments.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: irony, pluralism, politics, relativism

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“if you know whether a man is a decided monist or a decided pluralist, you perhaps know more about the rest of his opinions than if you give him any other name ending in IST. To believe in the one or in the many, that is the classification with the maximum number of consequences.”
― Will James

tags: monism, pluralism

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