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“In her book, The Age of American Unreason, Susan Jacoby mercilessly lampoons the very American notion that, because there are two sides to every question, both deserve respect and both must, in some way, be true. The Gut tells us that this is only fair, and we are a fair people, after all. All one has to do is muster an argument with enough vigor, package it well, and get enough people to buy both the idea and the product through which it is expressed. The more people buy, the more correct you are. The barriers that once forced American cranks to adapt or withdraw- or even merely to defend- their ideas all have fallen. It is considered impolite to raise them again, almost un-American, since we are all entitled to our opinion.”
― Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
― Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
“The business of voting your conscience is: Do you really care just about how you feel? or, Do you care about what happens to the world? If you care about what you feel you don't have any conscience, you're not a moral agent at all, so stop talking about conscience, you don't have any.”
― Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
― Global Discontents: Conversations on the Rising Threats to Democracy
“My God, that's what you want! You want to push the world to the brink, force it to choose between annihilation and survival! That's how you think you'll get what you want, that the choice of survival will win out!”
― The Bourne Supremacy
― The Bourne Supremacy
“So when the orator is more convincing than the doctor, what happens is that an ignorant person is more convincing than the expert before an equally ignorant audience.”
― Gorgias
― Gorgias
“You haven't told any of the men you've refused to fly more missions, have you?" No, sir, Yossarian answered promptly. Colonal Korn nodded approvingly. That's good. I like the way you lie. You'll go far in this world if you ever acquire some decent ambition.”
― Catch-22
― Catch-22
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