"In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at..."

“In religion and politics, people’s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.”



- Mark Twain (via avisphlox)

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