“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
