Life: The Bad Citizen

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03 jul 2007 :: 10:48pm

"The superior mind will find itself equally at odds with the evils of society, and with the projects that are offered to relieve them. The wise skeptic is a bad citizen; no conservative; he sees the selfishness of property, and the drowsiness of institutions. But neither is he fit to work with any democratic party that ever was constituted; for parties wish every one committed, and he penetrates the popular patriotism."
Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "Montaigne; or, the Skeptic" (1850)