Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
From John Stuart Mill
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.
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