Dictionary: Opinion Presented As Truth

We Must Discover How To Ask Simple Questions Of Ourselves.

The Age Of Reason Has Turned Out To Be The Age Of Structure; A Time When, In The Absence Of Purpose, The Drive For Power As A Value In Itself Has Become The Principal Indicator Of Social Approval. And The Winning Of Power Has Become The Measure Of Social Merit.

The Faithful Witness, Like...socrates, Voltaire, And Swift And Christ Himself, Is At His Best When He Is Questioning And Clarifying And Avoiding The Specialists Obsession With Solution. He Betrays Society When He Is Silent...he Is True To Himself And To People When His Clarity Causes Disquiet.

They (the Novelists) Became The Voice Of The Citizen Against The Ubiquitous Raison D'état, Which Reappeared Endlessly To Justify Everything From Unjust Laws And The Use Of Child Labour To Incompetent Generalship And Inhuman Conditions On Warships. The Themes They Popularized Have Gradually Turned Into The Laws Which, For All Their Flaws, Have Improved The State Of Man.

I Have A Theory Of Statistics: If You Can Double Them Or Halve Them And They Still Work, They Are Really Good Statistics.