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"Where ignorance is
bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." (Thomas Gray)
"At
a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
(George Orwell)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is
ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as
self-evident." (Arthur Schopenhauer)
"Great spirits have always
encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." (Albert
Einstein)
"Peoples, once
accustomed to masters, are not in a condition to do
without them.
If they attempt to shake off the yoke, they estrange themselves even more from freedom.
By mistaking for it an unbridled license to which
it is diametrically opposed, they nearly always manage,
by their revolutions, to hand
themselves over to seducers, who only make their chains heavier
than before." (Jean Jacques Rousseau)
"The
welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants."
(Albert Camus)
"Journalists say a
thing they know isn't true in the hope that, if they keep saying it long
enough, it will become true." (Arnold Bennett)
"Minds are like
parachutes, they work best when open."
(Lord Thomas Dewar)
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