29 March: 10 quotes which sum up Brexit.

While compiling lists of quotations for my blog over the past few months, I've occasionally come across one that made me think of Brexit. I try not to get political as a rule but could not resist sharing these today. Anyone thinking I should shut up and put up, I refer to #5.

1. It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone. John Steinbeck
2. Before this government came to power, we were on the edge of an economic precipice. Since then we have taken a giant step forward.
3. There is no stigma attached to recognising a bad decision in time to install a better one. Laurence J Peter
4. Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
5. A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument. Salman Rushdie
6. In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed. Iain Banks
7. Or shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost. William Wordsworth
8. You have the army of mediocrities followed by the multitude of fools. As the mediocrities and the fools always form the immense majority, it is impossible for them to elect an intelligent government. Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant
9. A dying people tolerates the present, rejects the future, and finds its satisfactions in past greatness and half remembered glory. John Steinbeck
10. Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. HL Mencken