Chère amie, ne savez-vous pas que la vertu est un état de guerre, et que, pour y vivre, on a toujours quelque combat à rendre contre soi? - Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Oh, man! Live your own life and no longer be wretched!

Terimi tam anlamı ile ele alırsak, hakiki demokrasi hiç bir zaman mevcut olmadığı gibi bundan sonra da olmayacaktır. Çok sayıdakilerin az sayıdakileri idaresi tabii nizama aykırıdır.

It is not so much the understanding that constitutes the specific difference between the man and the brute, as the human quality of freedom...and it is particularly in his consciousness of this liberty that the spirituality of his soul is displayed. For physics may explain in some degree the mechanism of the senses and the formation of ideas; but in the power of willing or rather or choosing, and in the feeling of this power, nothing is to be found but acts which are purely spiritual and wholly inexplicable by the laws of mechanism