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Tag Archives: Democratization

“They think democracy — I used to say ‘damn the democracy’, because it’s not a stable government”. –Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolutionary”. –Andrei Grechko

“Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero”. –Thomas Carlyle

“It has been observed that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government”. –Alexander Hamilton