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Swede

(34,923 posts) Mon Nov 11, 2024, 10:54 AM Nov 11

Marcus Aurelius, 2000 years ago - "To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness"

Lots of people voted for Trump, not believing the fucking words coming out of his mouth.

“To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness, for he who expects this desires an impossibility. But to allow men to behave so to others, and to expect them not to do you any wrong, is irrational and tyrannical.” — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations XI.18

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Marcus Aurelius, 2000 years ago - "To expect bad men not to do wrong is madness" (Original Post) Swede Nov 11 OP

I'll add to this one melm00se Nov 11 #1

melm00se

(5,075 posts)

1. I'll add to this one

Reply to Swede (Original post)

Mon Nov 11, 2024, 10:57 AM

Nov 11

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Asimov

https://aphelis.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/ASIMOV_1980_Cult_of_Ignorance.pdf

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