The most damaging phrase in the language is: 'It's always been done that way.'
Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
There was such a sense of relief on the left when New Labour came to power that certain orthodoxies could not be challenged. People became desperate to hang on to the ascendancy of left ideas without really questioning what they were about.
To exist in an echo chamber and only talk to people with whom we agree is fruitless.
The most powerful ideologies are not those that prevail against all challengers but those that are never challenged because in their ubiquity they appear as nothing more than the unadorned truth.
As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.
The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.
How will the world change if we do not question it?
