"No democracy is born perfect, and none ever gets to be perfect. Yet democracy is superior to authoritarian and totalitarian regimes because, unlike them, democracy is perfectible."

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Mario Vargas Llosa

#Perfect Quotes #Democracy Quotes #Born Quotes

“In 1957, I was a 16-year-old office boy for the Dodgers.”
“Conditioning is my best weapon.”
“Civil confusions often spring from trifles but decide great issues.”
“China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.”
“If you let people follow their feelings, they will be able to do good. This is what is meant by saying that human nature is good.”
“You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”
“Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere”
“When I was still in my psychiatric residency training in New York City, I was subjected to the doctor draft of that time, during the early fifties, at the time of the Korean War.”

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