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“The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all. It is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry to put down dissent and originality,’ said H.L. Mencken.”
― Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

“Free-market commerce is the only system of human organisation yet devised where ordinary people are in charge – unlike feudalism, communism, fascism, slavery and socialism.”
― Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

“The elite gets things wrong, says Douglas Carswell in The End of Politics and the Birth of iDemocracy, ‘because they endlessly seek to govern by design a world that is best organized spontaneously from below’. Public policy failures stem from planners’ excessive faith in deliberate design. ‘They consistently underrate the merits of spontaneous, organic arrangements, and fail to recognize that the best plan is often not to have one.”
― Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge

“Obama himself may have turned out to be something of a dud, but the cult of presidential personality that has dominated American politics for decades now still persists.”
― Matt Ridley, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge