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Feb. 25th, 2004 09:15 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
csberryI love refdesk.com! If you don't use it, you must. Anyways...they have a thought for the day. Today's I thought was especially good at explaining what I consider the biggest (definitely Top 3) fault on the part of politicians:
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Justice Louis Brandeis
Whenever you hate something a politician does, see if the above doesn't apply. Unless you're gonna be a cynical conspiracy theorist, I would say most political problems fit.
"The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." - Justice Louis Brandeis
Whenever you hate something a politician does, see if the above doesn't apply. Unless you're gonna be a cynical conspiracy theorist, I would say most political problems fit.
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Date: 2004-02-25 09:34 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-02-25 01:32 pm (UTC)There are numerous people who absolutely refuse to believe that people with political beliefs other than their own actually can be good, noble people with good intentions. Thus everything the other side does has some evil motivation behind it. To the people that have a black and white view, the principle is contradictory to their world outlook.