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H L Mencken
: Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Democracy is the pathetic belief in the wisdom of collective ignorance.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.
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Wrongly or rightly you think that I have a right to the name of Christian. I assure you that when in speaking of my childhood and youth I use the words vocation, obedience, spirit of poverty, purity, acceptance, love of one's neighbor, and other expressions of the same kind, I am giving them the exact signification they have for me now. Yet I was brought up by my parents and my brother in a complete agnosticism, and I never made the slightest effort to depart from it; I never had the slightest desire to do so, quite rightly, I think. In spite of that, ever since my birth, so to speak, not one of my faults, not one of my imperfections really had the excuse of ignorance. I shall have to answer for everything on that day when the Lamb shall come in anger. You can take my word for it too that Greece, Egypt, ancient India, and ancient China, the beauty of the world, the pure and authentic reflections of this beauty in art and science, what I have seen of the inner recesses of human hearts where religious belief is unknown, all these things have done as much as the visibly Christian ones to deliver me into Christ's hands as his captive. I think I might even say more. The love of these things that are outside visible Christianity keeps me outside the Church... But it also seems to me that when one speaks to you of unbelievers who are in affliction and accept their affliction as a part of the order of the world, it does not impress you in the same way as if it were a question of Christians and of submission to the will of God. Yet it is the same thing.
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The Socratic maxim that the recognition of our ignorance is the beginning of wisdom has profound significance for our understanding of society. Most of the advantages of social life, especially in the more advanced forms that we call 'civilization' rest on the fact that the individual benefits from more knowledge than he is aware of. It might be said that civilization begins when the individual in the pursuit of his ends can make use of more knowledge than he has himself acquired and when he can transcend the boundaries of his ignorance by profiting from knowledge he does not himself possess.
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Democracy encourages the majority to decide things about which the majority is blissfully ignorant.
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While democracy must have its organizations and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty.
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The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness, which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be, liberty.
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...the three Powers, discarding the ideologies of individualism and democracy, have adopted the principle of dealing with human society from the totalitarian point of view.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong
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A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
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Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
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