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“If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.” quote by George Bernard Shaw — Download Open image

“If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.”

George Bernard Shaw

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within…

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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