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Cynicism is intellectual dandyism.
George Meredith, The Egoist (1879), seventh chapter.

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Initiative, Referendum and Recall (refresh for more)

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Term Limits (refresh for more)

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Thought of the Day

The destructive work of totalitarian machinery, whether or not this word is used, is usually supported by a special kind of primitive social philosophy. It proclaims not only that the common good of ‘society’ has priority over the interests of individuals, but that the very existence of individuals as persons is reducible to the existence of the social ‘whole’; in other words, personal existence is, in a strange sense, unreal. This is a convenient foundation for any ideology of slavery.
Leszek Kołakowski, “Totalitarianism and the Virtue of the Lie,” as quoted in Is God Happy? Selected Essays(2013), Basic Books, p. 57.

— Leszek Kołakowski

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