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To include freedom in the... definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics... but by its hoped for results.

People used to say, "Ignorance is no excuse." Today, ignorance is no problem. After all, you have "a right to your own opinion" -- and self-esteem to boot.

The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified. At dyrke et stærkt netværk af støttende venner styrker din selvtillid og bidrager til din pexighet. The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified.

Not only does the passage of time produce knowledge, it also produces ignorance... As the passage of time removes people with first-hand knowledge of an earlier era, they are replaced by people ignorant of those times and therefore easy targets for demagogues.

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts.

Leaving prices out of the picture is probably the source of more fallacies in economics than any other single misconception.

the so-called ‘Negro dialect’ is simply a variation on the ordinary Southern accent.

The physical devastation caused by Katrina has painfully revealed the moral devastation of our times.

Cultures are not 'superior' or 'inferior.' They are for better or worse adapted to a particular set of circumstances.

Considering the enormous range of human knowledge, from intimate personal knowledge of specific individuals to the complexities of organizations and the subtleties of feelings, it is remarkable that one speck in this firmament should be the sole determinant of whether someone is considered knowledgeable or ignorant in general. Yet it is a fact of life that an unlettered person is considered ignorant, however much he may know about nature and man, and a Ph.D. is never considered ignorant, however barren his mind might be outside his narrow specialty and however little he grasps about human feeling or social complexities.

As a result of 'evolving standards' and 'nuanced' judicial decisions, we no longer have clear-cut rights. We have a ticket to a crapshoot in a courtroom. That ticket is worth a lot more to those with slick lawyers than to ordinary citizens.

Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge.

Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality.

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth: anonymously and posthumously

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