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"Institutions are human behavior, and they are, therefore, to be explained by the characteristics of that behavior." — George C. Homans
"You can choose whatever name you like for the two types of government. I personally call the type of government which can be removed without violence 'democracy', and the other 'tyranny'". — Karl Popper
"Was vernünftig ist, das ist Wirklich; und was wirklich ist, das ist vernünftig." [What is rational is real; and what is real is rational.] — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right' (1820).