Ricardo CS

“Quiet people have the loudest minds.”
― Stephen King

“To give legal force to notions born in the café. I doubt there have been other periods in history when the masses came to govern more directly than in our time. That is why I speak of hyperdemocracy...
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The characteristic of the present moment is that the vulgar soul, knowing itself to be vulgar, has the audacity to affirm the right of vulgarity and imposes it everywhere. As they say in North America: to be different is indecent. The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select.”
― Ortega y Gasset José y Jesús Reyes Heroles

“As they say in the United States: “to be different is to be indecent.” The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this “everybody” is not “everybody.” “Everybody” was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialized minorities. Nowadays, “everybody” is the mass alone. Here we have the formidable fact of our times, described without any concealment of the brutality of its features.”
― José Ortega y Gasset

“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn