"There is nothing so corrupt as history when it enters the servitude (of the state)." - Edger Quinet 1875 L'esprit nouvcau
"It appears from the experience of all ages and nations... that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than performed by slaves." - Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations, Vol. 1. p. 123)
"It appears from the experience of all ages and nations... that the work done by freemen comes cheaper in the end than performed by slaves." - Adam Smith (Wealth of Nations, Vol. 1. p. 123)
"All power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely." -Lord Acton
"If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free in a
state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. [...] A
society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and
deserve neither." -Thomas Jefferson
"Reading Furnishes the mind only with materials of
knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours." -John Locke
"The initial
mystery that attends any journey is how did the traveler reach his starting
point in the first place" -
Louise Bogan
"The true scholar should forget that he belongs to any
country... I am neither French, nor German, nor English, nor Spanish, ect..., I
am a resident of the World." -Pierre Bayle
"Society is produced by our wants, and government by
our wickedness" -unknown
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of
memory against forgetting." -Milan Kundera
"Reading maketh a full man; and writing an exact man.
And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit, and if he
read little, he need have much cunning to seem to know which he doth not."
-Francis Bacon
"A brave man dies once, a timid man dies daily."
-Kurdish proverb
"There are two fundamental ways to close the mind. One
is to deny reason's capability of knowing anything. The other is to dismiss
reality as unknowable." -Robert Reiley (Closing of the Muslim Mind)
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