Dreams Quote by Victor Hugo

“There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fair mindedness should be confounded with political trimming, or why…

— Herman Melville

“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

“we must guard against a tendency to require monolithic thought as imposed by political correctness.”

— Ben Carson

“When you enter the realm of politics and ideology, the distinction between opinion and fact starts to cloud, and the stakes become dauntingly high;…

— Michael Hirschorn

“Intelligence is a capacity so godlike, so protean that it must be contained and disciplined. This is the work of politics—understood as the ordering…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Intellectuals are the kind of people who demand evidence and are shocked by logical inconsistencies and fallacies. They regard oversimplification as the original sin…

— Aldous Huxley

“If individuals believe they are sovereign and that their ego is the supreme value, they will sooner or later also come to believe that…

— Bilahari P S Kausikan

“We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

“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

“Where difference of opinions arises, to retract our words is a sign of a wise man.”

— Dada Bhagwan

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -…

— Larry Laudan

“Well-informed citizens, too, have come in for their share of criticism, since their well-organized “ideological” thinking often turns out to be just a rather…

— Christopher H. Achen