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Absolutism is a guarantee of objectionable morals in the same way that absolutism in government is a guarantee of objectionable government.
Robert Briffault
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Robert Briffault
Age: 72 †
Born: 1876
Born: January 1
Died: 1948
Died: December 11
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Robert Stephen Briffault
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The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.
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Democracy is the worst form of government. It is the most inefficient, the most clumsy, the most unpractical.... It reduces wisdom to impotence and secures the triumph of folly, ignorance, clap-trap, and demagogy.... Yet democracy is the only form of social order that is admissible, because it is the only one consistent with justice.
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