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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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Isocrates:

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

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Jeremy Bentham:

Tyranny and anarchy are never far apart.

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Clarence Darrow:

Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey.

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Ivan Illich:

In a consumer society there are inevitably two kinds of slaves: the prisoners of addiction and the prisoners of envy.

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David Ferguson:

Elect a clown. Get a circus.

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Blaise Pascal:

People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.

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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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