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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