"No one can deny, in face of the evidence, that it is easy, given military power, to produce a population of fanatical lunatics. It would be equally easy to produce a population of sane and reasonable people, but many governments do not wish to do so, since such people would fail to admire the politicians who are at the head of these governments."

--from Bertrand Russell's essay "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" in Unpopular Essays

Labels: Literary Arts, Subversive Ideas, Think Tank

15 June, 2006