Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provisi…

Karl Kraus
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work. ✨ Karl Kraus (1976). Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms
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