Dictionary: Opinion Presented As Truth In Alphabetical

After All, In Both Languages We Were Dealing In Large Measure Not With English And French, But With Scots And Irish, Bretons And Normans ... There Could Be No More Eloquent Illustration Of The Colonial Mind-set Than A Bunch Of Celts And Vikings In A Distant Northern Territory Insulting Each Other As Les Anglais And The French As If They Were The Descendants Of The People Who Had Subjected And Ruined Them.

Our Belief In Salvation Through The Market Is Very Much In The Utopian Tradition. The Economists And Managers Are The Servants Of God. Like The Medieval Scholastics, Their Only Job Is To Uncover The Divine Plan. They Could Never Create Or Stop It. At Most They Might Aspire To Small Alterations.

Educating The Masses Was Intended Only To Improve The Relationship Between The Top And The Bottom Of Society. Not For Changing The Nature Of The Relationship.

Panic: A Highly Underrated Capacity Thanks To Which Individuals Are Able To Indicate Clearly That Something Is Wrong. Given Their Head, Most Humans Panic With Great Dignity And Imagination. This Can Be Called Democratic Expression Or Practical Common Sense.

It Is The Considered Opinion Of Most Members Of Our Rational élites That, In Any Given Difference Of Opinion With Reality, Reality Is Wrong.