"[L]ogically and empirically, it cannot be the case that "Thou shalt take responsibility for governing the world" is an univocal moral obligation. . . . All civil government is oligarchy; all of it is a few people (to use the language of Jesus) 'lording it' over the rest of us. The value of democracy is the relatively greater capacity which victims and third parties nonetheless have to speak critically."
-John Howard Yoder, On Not Being in Charge
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