Very true! Any institution is that which sets itself apart from the whole--here being furthered distinguishable as being 'democratic'--another set of checks and balances within the structure of the institution by a model of opposition hoping to find a path of functionality which is reasonable and tolerable in the best interest of the whole ... (Shall we call this perhaps "Distinguished Separation"!) Yet, by definition, it is itself energizing differentiation! Thus, rather than unifying--in which is to be found that true pathway to freedom and community--we instead find lines of division--battle-lines, as it were--keeping civilization in an awareness of 'me versus them'--the status quo in which we now find ourselves, riddled with wars, terrorism, etc. The effect, as the quote above, is one of truth: "Institutions purely democratic must, sooner, or later, destroy liberty or civilization or both."