We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norm, even our cultural ideal.
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The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They read more
The rule seems to be that those who find no difficulty in deceiving themselves are easily deceived by others. They are easily persuaded and led.
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
The stupider the peasant, the better the horse understands him.
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction read more
Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to publick opinion. This is the weak point of our defenses, and the part to which the enemies of the system will direct all their attacks. Opinion can be so perverted as to cause the false to seem the true; the enemy, a friend, and the friend, an enemy; the best interests of the nation to appear insignificant, and trifles of moment; in a word, the right the wrong, and the wrong the right.
There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
However different the holy causes people die for, they perhaps die basically for the same thing.
The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.
The strongest man upon Earth is he who stands most alone.
We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.
We have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we strive to resemble them.
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the read more
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
I find it valid to understand man as an animal before I am prepared to know him as a man.
