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Keep small, vote mainstream, and nod like it all makes sense. Yet here she is, asking for trouble. Acting like what she does might matter.
Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel

Hitherto no citizen has shown any disposition to expose his honor and his life in order to become the President of the United States; because the power of that office is temporary, limited, and subordinate.
Alexis de Tocqueville • Democracy in America, Volume I and II (Optimized for Kindle)
Ava Kofman • Curtis Yarvin’s Plot Against America
in the advanced political cultures of the Enlightenment tradition the creation of knowledge can and should be paramount, and the idea that representative government depends on proportionate representation in the legislature is unequivocally a mistake.
David Deutsch • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
The generation of academics coming into power thinks of the idea of truth as a fantasy, as a delusion, as a tool used by the power structure to keep the rest of us down. —Lynne Cheney
David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
Dan Holenstein • Notesnook
In 1947, studying for his citizenship exam, Gödel reportedly claimed to have found a loophole in the US Constitution that would allow Americans to elect a dictator.
David Shields • How We Got Here: Melville Plus Nietzsche Divided by the Square Root of (Allan) Bloom Times Žižek (Squared) Equals Bannon
Can there not be a government in which majorities do not virtually decide right and wrong, but conscience?—in which majorities decide only those questions to which the rule of expediency is applicable?