That Borges quote I posted is good and all but its only a small portion of a speech he gave when he received a major award in Chile. Here's the full highlight reel, over multiple tweets:
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"In and of itself a dictatorship doesn’t seem reprehensible, one has to consider the particular circumstances. In itself empires don’t seem to be wrong. The Roman Empire and the British Empire did a lot of good"
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"For a long time I believed in democracy. Now I don’t believe in it; at least not in my own country. Perhaps in other countries democracy can be justified; but in the Republic of Argentina I don’t think we can trust it"
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"Democracy [is] an abuse of statistics . . . No one supposes that a majority of people can have valid opinions about literature or about mathematics, but it is believed that everyone can have valid opinions about politics, which is more delicate than the other disciplines"
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Leftist bias aside, gives some historical background and nice reference to Sábato.
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