"The goal of politics should not be the pursuit of an ideal, but rather the search for common ground and reasonable consensus."
Related:
- I don't think we should punish the criminal [a rapist] by killing his child.
Dr. John Wilke, President, National Right to Life Committee... - Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
I call it rather a discerning of the infinite in the... - And science, we should insist, better than any other discipline,
can hold up to its students and followers an ideal... - To be willing to die for an ideal is to set a rather high price on
conjecture.
Oscar Wilde (... - Scan for vessels in pursuit.
Scanning. Indications are negative,
at this time. Did I...get it right? -- Kirk and McCoy... - We celebrate egalitarianism and consensus, but it is phony:
a chaos of voices rather than a democracy; a populace... - In any field of endeavor.the sciences, the humanities,
the social sciences, industry, etc..it is not the attainment... - Popular consensus says that reality is based on popular
consensus... - It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness
and perseverance than genius,
it does not reach its goal, while genius, already on...
