“It is one of the most difficult things that can be imposed on a thinking man, to have to witness the course of a historical process among ignorant people, whose inevitable outcome he has long known with clarity. The time of the error of others, of false hopes, of blindly committed mistakes then becomes very long.”
Carl J. Burckhardt
“The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance.”
Maximilien de Robespierre
“No one judges more harshly than the uneducated; he knows neither reasons nor counter-reasons and always believes himself to be in the right.”
Anselm Friedrich Feuerbach
“We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.”
George Bernard Shaw
“When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.”
Jonathan Swift
“The problem isn’t a lack of money food water or land. The problem is that you’ve given control of these things to a group of greedy psychopaths who care more about maintaining their own power than helping mankind”
Bill Hicks