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Heather Mac Donald
“In Los Angeles, for example, blacks commit 42 percent of all robberies and 34 percent of all felonies, though they are 10 percent of the city’s population. Whites commit 5 percent of all robberies and 13 percent of all felonies, though they are 29.4 percent of the city’s population.”
Heather Mac Donald, The War on Cops: How the New Attack on Law and Order Makes Everyone Less Safe

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Man is stupid, you know, phenomenally stupid; or rather he is not at all stupid, but he is so ungrateful that you could not find another like him in all creation. I, for instance, would not be in the least surprised if all of a sudden, A PROPOS of nothing, in the midst of general prosperity a gentleman with an ignoble, or rather with a reactionary and ironical, countenance were to arise and, putting his arms akimbo, say to us all: "I say, gentleman, hadn't we better kick over the whole show and scatter rationalism to the winds, simply to send these logarithms to the devil, and to enable us to live once more at our own sweet foolish will!" That again would not matter, but what is annoying is that he would be sure to find followers--such is the nature of man. And”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from the Underground

Allan Bloom
“It may well be that a society’s greatest madness seems normal to itself.”
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom
“Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How did it become so easy?”
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

Allan Bloom
“One has to have the experience of really believing before one can have the thrill of liberation.”
Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

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