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(1818–1883) a German philosopher, critic of political economy, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist, and socialist revolutionary.

Democracy cannot long survive

Democracy is a form of government that cannot long survive, for as soon as the people learn that they have a voice in the fiscal policies of the government, they will move to vote for themselves all the money in the treasury, and bankrupt the nation.

Author Greg RavenPosted on April 23, 2012November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories democracyTags Karl Marx

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

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