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“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”
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“The word 'friend' has become so utterly void of meaning in a world governed by social media. How can anyone truly claim to have eleven hundred friends ? In my book that would involve making time to meet at least three of them every day of the year.”
― Impromptu Scribe
― Impromptu Scribe
“Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road.”
― Philosophical Dictionary
― Philosophical Dictionary
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
― Notes on Democracy
― Notes on Democracy
Brian’s 2024 Year in Books
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