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“I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit in their own destruction.”
(From Yudkowsky's "Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality")

"Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How’s that again? I missed something.
Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let’s play that over again, too. Who decides?"
(From Heinlein's "Time Enough for Love")

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