Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible—as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead.
I wish to suggest that ample opportunity does exist for dissent, for protest, and for nonconformity. But I must also say that the right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
