Louis MacNeice quote

Democracy - or any improvement on it - will rest on the layman's right to criticize. His criticism will be often - very often - damn silly, but if, like Plato and the Fascists, we take away his right to criticize, we take away his right to appreciate.
Louis MacNeice
Louis MacNeice
Born: Sep 12, 1907
Died: Sep 3, 1963

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