• Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.

    Bertrand Russell: Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
    "New Hopes for a Changing World". Part III: Man and Himself, Ch. 16: Ideas Which Have Become Obsolete, p. 158. Book by Bertrand Russell, 1951.