Believe Quote by Murray Rothbard

The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives.…

— Murray Rothbard

“For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“In a country as profoundly anti-intellectual as ours it is predictable that our leaders will do whatever they can in order not to appear…

— Stuart Rojstaczer

Our idea is that a state is strong when the people are politically conscious. It is strong when the people know everything, can form…

— Vladimir Lenin

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

— Gary Gutting

The conclusion, so vexatious to democracy, that wisdom and not popularity qualifies for rule may be forced upon us by the peril in atomic…

— Richard M. Weaver

History has shown us many times that if the state repressively forces the redistribution of wealth and social justice, it becomes dangerous both for…

— Rohini Nilekani

A true democracy starts by separating state and bad science.

— Jens Martin Skibsted

But the wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting; that the State must follow, and notlead…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Anti-intellectualism is itself a means of short-circuiting democracy, because a stable democracy in any culture relies on the public actually understanding the implications of…

— Thomas M. Nichols

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been…

— Richard Hofstadter

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

— Thomas Jefferson