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We have all sufficient strength to endure the misfortunes of others.
more François Duc de La Rochefoucauld quotes
Republicanism and ignorance are in bitter antagonism.
more Alphonse de Lamartine quotes
Few persons enjoy real liberty; we are all slaves to ideas or habits.
more Louis Charles Alfred de Musset quotes
The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance.
more Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre quotes
Where are we then? The religionists are the enemies of liberty, and the friends of liberty attack religion; the high-minded and the noble advocate subjection, and the meanest and most servile minds preach independence; honest and enlightened citizens are opposed to all progress, whilst men without patriotism and without principles are the apostles of civilization and intelligence. Has such been the fate of the centuries which have preceded our own? and has man always inhabited a world like the present, where nothing is linked together, where virtue is without genius, and genius without honor; where the love of order is confounded with a taste for oppression, and the holy rites of freedom with a taste for law; where the light thrown by conscience on human actions is dim, and where nothing seems to be any longer forbidden or allowed, honorable or shameful, false or true?
more Alexis de Tocqueville quotes
Those with power are frequently least aware of -- or least willing to acknowledge -- its existence [and] those with less power are often most aware of its existence.
more Lisa Delpit quotes
I was at last beginning to see how ignorant I had become, how long since I had read anything except Party literature. I thought of our bookshelves stripped of books questioned by the Party, how when a writer was expelled from the Party his books went, too. I thought of the systematic rewriting of Soviet history, the revaluation, and in some cases the blotting out of any mention of such persons as Trotsky. I thought of the successive purges. Suddenly I too wanted the answers to the questions Senator Hickenlooper was asking and I wanted the truth. I found myself hitting at the duplicity of the Communist Party.
more Dr. Bella Dodd quotes
Yes; truth blends well with untruth. It is one of the maladies of our age, a sign of sheer nervousness, to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake.
more Norman Douglas quotes
As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.
more Justice William O. Douglas quotes
Of all the tyrannies on human kind / the worst is that which persecutes the mind.
more John Dryden quotes
Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
more Alexandre Dumas quotes
To speak ill of others is a dishonest way of praising ourselves.
more Will Durant quotes
People only see what they are prepared to see.
more Ralph Waldo Emerson quotes
In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.
more Desiderius Erasmus quotes
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
more Euripides quotes
Most people know more about their congressmen via smear campaigns than they know about their own neighbor via conversations, and a lot of people know more about Britney Spears via tabloids than they know about their own congressmen via voting booklets. Does anyone else see the problem here?
more Brock Fiant quotes
There is no zeal blinder than that which is inspired with a love of justice against offenders.
more Henry Fielding quotes
A nation of well informed men who have been taught to know and prize the rights which God has given them cannot be enslaved. It is in the region of ignorance that tyranny begins.
more Benjamin Franklin quotes
A society that puts equality...ahead of freedom will end up with neither equality nor freedom.
more Milton Friedman quotes
I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called "brightness", but it doesn't work.
more Gallagher quotes
From my experience of hundreds of children, I know that they have perhaps a finer sense of honour than you or I have. The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.
more Mahatma Mohandas K. Gandhi quotes
Nothing is as terrible to see as ignorance in action.
more Johann Wolfgang von Goethe quotes
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.
more Ulysses S. Grant quotes
We have stricken the shackles from 4,000,000 human beings and brought all labourers to a common level, but not so much by the elevation of former slaves as by reducing the whole working population, white and black, to a condition of serfdom. While boasting of our noble deeds, we are careful to conceal the ugly fact that by our iniquitous money system we have manipulated a system of oppression which, though more refined, is no less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery.
more Horace Greeley quotes
Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
more Germaine Greer quotes
The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. Were you once to become acquainted with these, you could never entertain a thought, that all men are not, by nature, entitled to a parity of privileges. You would be convinced, that natural liberty is a gift of the beneficent Creator, to the whole human race; and that civil liberty is founded in that; and cannot be wrested from any people, without the most manifest violation of justice. Civil liberty is only natural liberty, modified and secured by the sanctions of civil society. It is not a thing, in its own nature, precarious and dependent on human will and caprice; but it is conformable to the constitution of man, as well as necessary to the well-being of society.
more Alexander Hamilton quotes
...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.
more Friedrich August von Hayek quotes
Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.
more Friedrich August von Hayek quotes
All political theories assume, of course, that most individuals are very ignorant. Those who plead for liberty differ from the rest in that they include among the ignorant themselves as well as the wisest.
more Friedrich August von Hayek quotes
Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.
more Friedrich August von Hayek quotes
Prejudice is the child of ignorance.
more William Hazlitt quotes
The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.
more Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel quotes
...[A] fool cannot be protected from his folly. If you attempt to do so, you will not only arouse his animosity but also you will be attempting to deprive him of whatever benefit he is capable of deriving from experience. Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
more Robert A. Heinlein quotes
It is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and provide for it.
more Patrick Henry quotes
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details. Knowledge is not intelligence. In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected. Change alone is unchanging. The same road goes both up and down. The beginning of a circle is also its end. Not I, but the world says it: all is one. And yet everything comes in season.
more Heraclitus quotes
Big business in America today and for some years has been openly at war with competition and, thus, at war with laissez-faire capitalism. ... The left's attack on corporate capitalism is, when examined, an attack on economic forms possible only in collusion between authoritarian government and bureaucratized, nonentrepreneurial business. It is unfortunate that many New Leftists are so uncritical as to accept this premise as indicating that all forms of capitalism are bad ...
more Karl Hess quotes
How fortunate for governments that people do not think. There is no thinking except in giving and executing commands. If it were otherwise human society could not exist.
more Adolf Hitler quotes
To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats -- we know it not.
more Eric Hoffer quotes
To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. They are eager to barter their independence for relief from the burdens of willing, deciding and being responsible for inevitable failure. They willingly abdicate the directing of their lives to those who want to plan, command and shoulder all responsibility.
more Eric Hoffer quotes
It is doubtful if the oppressed ever fight for freedom. They fight for pride and power -- power to oppress others. The oppressed want above all to imitate their oppressors; they want to retaliate.
more Eric Hoffer quotes
Every single American can exclaim, 'Nothing justifies what they did in New York and Washington,' not even the bombs that our government has dropped on them for ten years or the embargo that has caused the deaths of so many children. That's of course true…The issue is simply an acceptance of reality and a fundamental fact of life: When governments do bad things to people, people sometimes retaliate.
more Jacob G. Hornberger quotes
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
more Elbert Hubbard quotes
Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don’t know because we don’t want to know.
more Aldous Huxley quotes
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
more Aldous Huxley quotes
One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, ‘I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.
more Henrik Ibsen quotes
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
more Robert G. Ingersoll quotes
There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.
more Robert G. Ingersoll quotes
It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
more Thomas Jefferson quotes
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
more Thomas Jefferson quotes
If a Nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.... If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.
more Thomas Jefferson quotes
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