“Colonialism. The enforced spread of the rule of reason. But who is going to spread it among the colonizers?”
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Anthony Burgess297
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“There are many difficulties impeding the rapid spread of reasonableness.”
Karl Popper (1902–1994) Austrian-British philosopher of science
Utopia and Violence (1947)
Context: There are many difficulties impeding the rapid spread of reasonableness. One of the main difficulties is that it always takes two to make a discussion reasonable. Each of the parties must be ready to learn from the other. You cannot have a rational discussion with a man who prefers shooting you to being convinced by you.
Ian Smith book The Great Betrayal
The Great Betrayal: The Memoirs of Ian Douglas Smith, Africa's Most Controversial Leader
First published in June 1997.
“What is meant by its nature for the highest and the best, spreads among the lowly people.”
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) author
Source: Franz Kafka: A Biography (1960), p. 74
Ken MacLeod book Learning the World
Source: Learning the World (2005), Chapter 14 “The Extraordinary and Remarkable Ship” (p. 239)
Elizabeth Cheney (1966) American lawyer
[Alex Rogers and Manu Raju, https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/03/politics/liz-cheney-criticism-trump-big-lie/index.html, Cheney calls out Trump's latest attempt to promote 'BIG LIE' amid criticism from within her own party, cnn.com, May 3, 2021, May 7, 2021]
“It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.”
Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author
Learned Hand (1872–1961) American legal scholar, Court of Appeals judge
"Proceedings in Memory of Justice Brandeis" (1942).
Extra-judicial writings
Context: The day has clearly gone forever of societies small enough for their members to have personal acquaintance with one another, and to find their station through the appraisal of those who have first hand knowledge of them. Publicity is an evil substitute and the art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, every year adds to its potency and to the finality of its judgments. The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country whether we like it or not, we must learn to accept it.
Koenraad Elst (1959) orientalist, writer
2000s, Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate (2007)