Skip to content

Uncommon Sense

Pithy sayings and brilliant observations

The best and brightest

And to say that society ought to be governed by the opinion of the wisest and best, though true, is useless. Whose opinion is to decide who are the wisest and best?

Author Greg RavenPosted on May 11, 2016November 1, 2018Format QuoteCategories governmentTags Thomas Babington Macaulay

Post navigation

Previous Previous post: Man must be bigger than the state
Next Next post: Loss of American liberties

“Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.” — Thomas Paine

Authors

  • Authors

Categories

Powered by

“There can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of action is the practice of truth.” — George Jacob Holyoake

Uncommon Sense Proudly powered by WordPress