Moses I. Finley - Democracy Quotes

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For it is conflict combined with consent, not consent alone, which preserves democracy from eroding into oligarchy.

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We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.

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