"On why I don't trust democracy without..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.
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“We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.”
“There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.”
“A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.”
More on Ambition
“What we're doing here will send a giant ripple through the universe.”
“I thought I would be a guy on the radio.”
“Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow.”
More on Deception
“No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report.”
“Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly.”
“We like to be deceived.”