A Krishna conscious society capturing government through devoted followers is democracy's highest potential expression.Listen — Srila Prabhupada Uvaca
[Prabhupāda fingering japa beads throughout] Prabhupāda: ... character, education, devotion, activities. Who can take more care than the father and the mother? So you combine together, make a batch of good character, ideal character in the whole world. There is no ideal character.
Everyone is drunkard and meat-eater or woman-hunter. What is the civilization? Hog civilization. [break] ...civilization. Work hard, get some money, and spend it for intoxication, illicit sex.
This is civilization. Is it not? They have no idea how to make civilized. Mahāvīra: I was hearing that before I left England there was some trouble in Scotland over the rules about the bars and drinking. And now they want to make a rule, a law, that the children can be allowed into the bars under their parents'...
They make it a big social... Prabhupāda: They allow the children sit down. They take soda water, and the father, mother drinking. I have seen it. They are learning from the father and mother from the begin... Hari-śauri: My father used to...
Every Sunday they used to go to the pub, and then for Sunday afternoon, as a special treat, they would all get..., we'd be given a glass of beer.
Prabhupāda: Just see. Father, mother take... Because they think it is civilization. Elderly boys, the father, mother tell, "What is the wrong, illicit sex?
Take woman, take car. Enjoy life." I have seen it. They know, "This is life. Why...?" Therefore they say, "Brainwash.