Timothy

“At the turn of the twentieth century, the first wave of academic political scientists attacked some of their theoretical predecessors for the supposed mistake of assuming that human beings were entirely rational. This mistake had allegedly been made by politicians and theorists who had tried to appeal to voters in terms of purely rational argument. The new political scientists triumphantly pointed out that image, stereotype, the emotions arising in crowds, family background, and many other irrational factors were actually the main determinants of political behaviour.”
― Kenneth Minogue, Politics: A Very Short Introduction

“You have never seen ugliness in a happy face.”
― William J. Locke, The Belovéd Vagabond

“It is said that the price of freedom is vigilance, and an important form of vigilance is attention to political rhetoric, which often reveals how things are going.”
― Kenneth Minogue, Politics: A Very Short Introduction

“O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark,
The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant”
― T. S. Eliot