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Simone Weil:

Whenever one tries to suppress doubt, there is tyranny.

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Andre Gide:

The most decisive actions of our life — I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future — are, more often than not, unconsidered.

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Diogenes Laërtius:

The market is a place set apart where men may deceive each other.

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Demosthenes:

The easiest thing in the world is self-deceit; for every man believes what he wishes, though the reality is often different.

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Marilyn Frye:

Men see with arrogant eyes which organize everything seen with reference to themselves and their own interests.

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William Pitt the Younger:

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom.

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Edward R. Murrow:

No one man can terrorize a whole nation unless we are all his accomplices.

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Seneca the Younger:

This is the worst trait of minds rendered arrogant by prosperity, they hate those whom they have injured.

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Neil Dudgeon, in the voice of DCI John Barnaby:

Once upon a time, there was a thing called books. They could be quite useful.

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Lysander Spooner:

There can be no criminal intent in resisting injustice.

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Alan Barth:

The notion that the church, the press, and the universities should serve the state is essentially a Communist notion. In a free society these institutions must be wholly free – which is to say that their function is to serve as checks upon the state.

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Petrarch:

How difficult it is to save the bark of reputation from the rocks of ignorance.

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Emile Durkheim:

It is society which, fashioning us in its image, fills us with religious, political, and moral beliefs that control our actions.

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Martin Sheen, as President Bartlett:

I’m the President of the United States, not the president of the people who agree with me.

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Caroline Graham:

Idealists are never innocent. They cause half the trouble that’s going.

Graham, Caroline, Death in Disguise (New York: Felony and Mayhem Press, 2007) p. 333>

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Kate Duchêne, in the voice of Miss Constance Hardbroom:

. . . highwaymen, thieves, and rogues are usually to be found among the male of the species.

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Barack Obama:

I’m the president of the United States. I’m not the emperor of the United States.

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Hans-Georg Gadamer:

Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.

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Dick Cavett:

But as long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

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Kingman Brewster, Jr.:

Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.

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