Quotes
“Political action involves mental vulgarity, not merely because it entails the occurrence and support of those who are mentally vulgar, but because of the simplification of human life implied in even the best of it purposes.”
Michael Oakeshott in The Claims of Politics
“In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics.”
Bryan Caplan in The Myth of the Rational Voter
“..if any really universal ground can be imputed to all rational persons on which they cannot but accept the principle of collective choice and its enforcement, it is acquiescence in accomplished facts that are too difficult to undo.”
Anthony de Jasay in Prisoners’ Dilemma and the Theory of the State
“The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within the sphere of his real interests. He becomes primitive again.”
Joseph Schumpeter in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
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