Jody

“How ignorant a man can become on a diet of managed history.”
― Frank Herbert, The Eyes of Heisenberg

“Why then this failure of the leaders? It was due in part to their absolute conviction that they were right. This is a habit of political animals around the world. But the Jacobins believed that only they understood the general will of the French people, hence they were morally right. Opposition was considered not merely mistaken, but evil and traitorous, and hence punishable, even lethally. The Jacobins asserted a monopoly of virtue which meant to them a license to kill those who held up other values.”
― James MacGregor Burns