If you haven’t read the PTI’s white paper on the government’s first year in power, here’s a quick brief. It begins with a quote, rather strangely chosen, by a Frenchman from the revolutionary era, saying something about Spartans and Persians and how people are slaves because they cannot utter the word ‘no’. The Frenchman in question — Nicolas Chamfort — is then erroneously identified as a 19th-century French writer. In fact, Chamfort died in 1794 and belonged firmly to the 18th century. But let’s not quibble over trivial details. Monsieur Chamfort had other lines to his credit, besides the one that decorates the top of the white paper. “One can be certain that every generally held idea, every received notion, will be an idiocy, because it has been able to appeal to a majority,” he once wrote.
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 04:41:39 +0000
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