Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.
Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the b… - Anthony Daniels
Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the b…
- Anthony Daniels
[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated. - Anthony Daniels
[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.
Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy. - Anthony Daniels
Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners. - Anthony Daniels
I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.
The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absu… - Anthony Daniels
The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absu…
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult. - Anthony Daniels
Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence. - Anthony Daniels
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result. - Anthony Daniels
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.
It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely pra… - Anthony Daniels
It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely pra…
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