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Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.

Louis MacNeice

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Demokratie - oder jede Verbesserung - wird auf dem Recht des Laien beruhen, zu kritisieren. Seine Kritik wird oft - sehr oft - verdammt dumm sein, aber wenn wir, wie Platon und die Faschisten, sein Recht auf Kritik nehmen, nehmen wir ihm das Recht auf Anerkennung.

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