Andrew Powell

“People who like authoritarianism always picture themselves running the show. But no one stays on top for long.”
― Jonathan Rauch, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought

“But this principle is based on a more profound philosophical idea—that no matter how certain you may be that you are in possession of the truth, you have no right to impose your belief on society as a whole.”
― Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody

“It’s the rich who have dreams and rockets!”
― Ray Bradbury, The Illustrated Man

“We hinder the cause of human rights if we chastise anyone who points out humanitarian abuses as imperialist or racist.”
― Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody