Evgeny Morozov Quotes

A democracy becomes ungovernable if a substantial portion of the population lives in an alternative reality…. How do you have a rational conversation about President Obama’s policies of he believes that Obama is a spy for Iran.

Those indoctrinated by leftist thinking become largely incapable of making accurate moral judgments.

As partisans of our own way of life, we cannot help thinking in a partisan manner.

With the Internet era and social media and politics being so out there with the lies, now you've got people denying things they're on camera doing, and then you've got people not really caring about the truth. You've got people supporting people who've done horrific things, but just don't want the other side to get any satisfaction.

It's awfully hard to get into the head of a liberal. Instead of logic and reason, they are drawn to emotions and feelings.

All ideologies are idiotic, whether religious or political, for it is conceptual thinking, the conceptual word, which has so unfortunately divided man.

Brains, you know, are suspect in the Republican Party.

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it.

Anybody who tunes into Rush Limabaugh already knows what he's going to say and is already inclined to agree. So it winds up creating tribes.

I have spent a good part of my life showing what an intellectual bubble the Left lives in.

Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side.

The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

People getting their fundamental interests wrong is what American political life is all about.

I guess I'm interested in people who are very sophisticated in intellectual ways, while being completely off the mark in emotional ones, with these huge blind spots in terms of their own behavior.

Our modern world, though infinitely more complex than that of ancient Greece, is also far more superficial. Where the Greeks offered simple psychological training, we live in an age of style and spin in which perceptions of good and evil slither and shift with the political view of the moment.

You don't change anybody's mind with political humor. You just reinforce what people already believe.

Too many people in this town think about politics when they make every decision.

Liberalism is a Mental Illness

In an ideological, polarized political environment, people see the reality that they want to see.

I have learned, by some experience, that virtue and patriotism, vice and selfishness, are found in all parties, and that they differ less in their motives than in the policies they pursue.

Partisanship shapes the reality that people choose to see.

We not only want to believe that our party is superior to the opposing party, but also we want to believe that we are justified in believing this to be true.

… the politically engaged will tend also to be the most closed-minded.

Politics has become a little like football. We cheer for our favorite team no matter how well they are playing.