If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain,…

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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote? ✨ Bertrand Russell (2009). Bertrand Russell's Best, p.82, Routledge
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite. ✨ Sceptical Essays. Book by Bertrand Russell, Ch. 12: Free Thought and Official Propaganda, 1928.
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If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote? ✨ Bertrand Russell (2009). Bertrand Russell's Best, p.82, Routledge

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