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It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.

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Democracy is a political method, that is to say, a certain type of institutional arrangement for arriving at political – legislative and administrative – decisions and hence incapable of being an end in itself.

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Bureaucracy is not an obstacle to democracy but an inevitable complement to it.

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As a matter of practical necessity, socialist democracy may eventually turn out to be more of a sham than capitalist democracy ever was.

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Joseph Schumpeter

Joseph Schumpeter
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Born: February 8, 1883
Died: January 8, 1950 (aged 66)
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