Jason Brennan quotes
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“My main worry about referendums is that you are taking a very complicated political question that requires knowledge of a bunch of background facts in the social sciences and you're handing that question to people who don't know those facts and in fact, are systematically misinformed about them.”
-- Jason BrennanSource : Source: www.cbc.ca
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“I'm skeptical about even educating voters as a chance for being successful. You know, when we look at what people retain from high school a year after they've graduated, they've forgotten most everything about history and civics and everything, and I think the main worry here is that because your individual vote counts for so little, you just don't have a strong incentive to invest in the knowledge, to retain the knowledge, to process information in a rational way.”
-- Jason BrennanSource : Source: www.cbc.ca
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“It's often considered elitist to say that well maybe voters are uninformed and that they should know more before they cast their votes. It's strange to say that because it's also elitist to say that to run a radio station requires skill or to be a plumber requires skill and background knowledge.”
-- Jason BrennanSource : Source: www.cbc.ca
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“For some reason when it comes to democracy, we seem to think that political knowledge doesn't make any kind of difference or we shouldn't say that it does, like it would hurt people's feelings.”
-- Jason BrennanSource : Source: www.cbc.ca
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“The power to regulate the economy is the same thing as the power to distribute favors.”
-- Jason BrennanSource : Jason Brennan (2012). “Libertarianism: What Everyone Needs to Know?”, p.119, Oxford University Press
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“When I'm crossing the street, I look both ways and I process the information rationally because if I make a mistake I get hurt, but when I cast a vote, kind of regardless of how I voted, doesn't make a difference and that's sort of a recipe for uninformed and irrational voting.”
-- Jason BrennanSource : Source: www.cbc.ca
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“The problem with voting is that because your individual vote makes very little difference, you're voting with a mass of others, you have very little incentive to take care in carefully considering what your vote would mean.”
-- Jason BrennanSource : Source: www.cbc.ca
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.”
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Source : "Ştiinţa antisemitismului ("The Science of Anti-Semitism")". "Apararea Nationala" ("The National Defense") No. 16, Nov. 15, 1922.
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Source : Adam Grant (2013). “Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success”, p.12, Penguin
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“Don't worry about people from your past there's a reason why they didn't make it to your future.”
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Source : "Uncommon Law". Book by A. P. Herbert, 1935.
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