The whole dream of democracy ...

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
 Gustave Flaubert

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All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
 Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart.
 Thích Nhất Hạnh
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

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Reality does not conform to the ideal but confirms it.
 Gustave Flaubert
There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things.
 Gustave Flaubert
Abstraction can provide stumbling blocks for people of strange intelligence.
 Gustave Flaubert
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
 Gustave Flaubert
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,--a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
 Gustave Flaubert