Democracy is less hateful than other contemporary forms of government,
and to that extent it deserves our support. It does start from the assumption
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that the individual is important, and that all types are needed to make a
civilization. It does not divide its citizens into the bossers and the bossed -
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5/as an efficiency-regime tends to do. The people I admire most are those who
are sensitive and want to create something or discover something, and do
not see life in terms of power, and such people get more of a chance under a
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democracy than elsewhere. They found religions, great or small, or they
produce literature and art, or they do disinterested scientific research, or
they may be what is called "ordinary people," who are creative in their
private lives, bring up their children decently, for instance, or help their
neighbors. All these people need to express themselves; they cannot do so
unless society allows them liberty to do so, and the society which allows
