[Israeli psychologist Amos Tversky] had listened to an American economist talk about how so-and-so was stupid and so-and-so was a fool, then said, “All your economic models are premised on people being smart and rational, and yet all the people you know are idiots.”
"It is increasingly clear that the real threat lies not with the person crossing a border, working a warehouse shift, or marching in the street—but with the structure that enriches itself by sowing division and suppressing dissent." - Peter Bloom
"You Yanks don't consult the wisdom of democracy; you enable mobs." - Australian planner
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