Tyranny, as I was saying, is monarchy exercising the rule of a master over the political society; oligarchy is when men of property have the government in their hands; democracy, the opposite, when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
--Aristotle, Politics, Book III A proper democracy is a form of rule that comes from the people as a whole, not one particular class, whether it be politician or those in the upper ranks of wealth. This despite those who would prefer an oligarchy or, like Aristotle, an aristocracy.
The poor cannot be left as abject remnants of an overbearing capitalist system; this is because even the poor can vote, and so do their sympathizers, and together they vastly outnumber the rich.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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