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William L. Shirer:

I myself was to experience how easily one is taken in by a lying and censored press and radio in a totalitarian state.

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Max Eastman:

I still think the worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them.

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Bill Moyers:

Conservatives — or better, pro-corporate apologists — hijacked the vocabulary of Jeffersonian liberalism and turned words like “progress,” “opportunity,” and “individualism” into tools for making the plunder of America sound like divine right . . . .

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Charles Darwin:

A republic cannot succeed, till it contains a certain body of men imbued with the principles of justice and honour.

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Gore Vidal:

Modern Christianity is a encyclopedia of traditional superstition.

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Oriana Fallaci:

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

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Hippocrates:

There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

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Lauren Bacall, in an interview with Larry King:

Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you’re a liberal. You do not have a small mind . . . I’m total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it’s outrageous to say “The L word”. I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.

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Francis Bacon:

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

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David Ferguson, commenting on Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk’s ruling on mifepristone:

You guys want to be small government, you want minimal interference, minimal regulations, except when it comes to people you don’t like.

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Denis Diderot:

From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.

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Camille Paglia:

Human life began in flight and fear. Religion rose from rituals of propitiation, spells to lull the punishing elements.

(Date typo corrected.)

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Gavin MacLeod, in the voice of a striking Murray Slaughter:

Why are we always the heavies? It’s always “management offers,” but “unions demand.”

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Carl Jung:

The healthy man does not torture others—generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.

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William D. Andrews:

Ignorance, she had come to understand, was no bar to his pronouncement of truths.

Andrews, William D., Mapping Murder (Yarmouth, ME: Islandport Press, 2017) p. 44

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Paul Hackett:

We’re not going to spread democracy at the business end of a M16 held by a 23 year old Marine.

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Jack Paar:

Now that man can fly through the air like a bird … and swim in the sea like a fish, wouldn’t it be wonderful if he could just walk the earth like a man?

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Morrison Waite:

We know that this is a power which may be abused; but that is no argument against its existence. For protection against abuses by legislatures the people must resort to the polls, not to the courts.

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Georges Danton:

After bread, education is the first need of the people.

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Suzanne Langer:

Common-sense knowledge is prompt, categorical, and inexact.

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