"Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a……" — Allan Bloom
"Sycophancy toward those who hold power is a fact in every regime, and especially in a democracy, where, unlike tyranny, there is an accepted principle of legitimacy that breaks the inner will to resist.... Flattery of the people and incapacity to resist public opinion are the democratic vices, particularly among writers, artists, journalists and anyone else who is dependent on an audience."
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58 Quotes by Allan Bloom
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Authentic values are those by which a life can be lived, which can form a people that produces great deeds…
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Only Socrates knew, after a lifetime of unceasing labor, that he was ignorant. Now every high-school student knows that. How…
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Education is the movement from darkness to light.
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Fathers and mothers have lost the idea that the highest aspiration they might have for their children is for them…
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Nothing is more singular about this generation than its addiction to music.
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that…
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We are like ignorant shepherds living on a site where great civilizations once flourished. The shepherds play with the fragments…
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Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired…
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Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always…
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As soon as tradition has come to be recognized as tradition, it is dead.
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Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
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