"I dread specialists in power because they..." - Quote by C S Lewis
I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject.
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“I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.”
“We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.”
“Pilate was merciful till it became risky.”
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“If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.”
“All men are capable of reason. That is the fundamental principle of democracy Because everybody's mind is capable of true knowledge, you don't have to have a special authority, or a special revelation telling you that this is the way things should be.”
“Many people never grow up. They stay all their lives with a passionate need for external authority and guidance, pretending not to trust their own judgment.”