Democracies cannot dispense with hypocrisy any more than dictatorships can with cynicism.

Georges Bernanos

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Downsides of democracy Democracy

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Georges Bernanos

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French

Time

1939 1930s 20th century

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Bernanos, Georges. Nous Autres Francais. Gallimard, 1939.

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One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tender is the Night

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Emotional scars

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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Tender is the Night
Medium
Novel
Language
English
Time
1934 1930s 20th century
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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "Tender is the Night." Scribner's Magazine, Jan. 1934 - Apr. 1934.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. Tender is the Night. Scribners, 1995, ch. 14.

Another quote about Democracy

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

Aristotle

Politics

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Freedom and democracy Democratic legitimacy Democracy Freedom

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Aristotle
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Politics
Genre
Political literature Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
350 BC 350s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Aristotle. Politics. 4th century BC, bk. 6.

Current Citation

Aristotle. Politics, translated by R. F. Stalley and Sir Ernest Barker. Oxford University Press, 2009, bk. 6.

Another quote from 1939

Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.

Rhett Butler

Gone with the Wind

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Indifference
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Rhett Butler
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Clark Gable
Source
Gone with the Wind
Medium
Film
Genre
Epic (film) Historical romance (film) Epic Historical romance
Language
English
Time
1939 1930s 20th century
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Citation

Gone with the Wind. Directed by Victor Fleming. Selznick International Pictures/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1939.

Another quote originally in French

God is stupidity and cowardice; God is hypocrisy and falsehood. God is tyranny and poverty; God is evil. For as long as men bow before altars, mankind will remain damned, the slaves of kings and priests.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The System of Economic Contradictions

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Nature of God God

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Source
The System of Economic Contradictions
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Philosophical literature Political literature
Language
French
Time
1846 1840s 19th century
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Citation

Proudhon, Pierre-Joseph. Systeme des contradictions economiques ou Philosophie de la misere [The System of Economic Contractictions, or Philosophy of Misery]. Paris: Chez Guilla umin et Cie, 1846, ch. 8.