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“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action”. –Isabel Paterson

“The only people who accept slavery are the Negroes, owing to their low degree of humanity and proximity to the animal stage”. –Ibn Khaldun

“The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world”. –Louis Agassiz

“You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn”. –Desiderius Erasmus

“Politics is the art of stopping people from minding their own business”. –Paul Valéry

“A Judge must bear in mind that when he tries a case he is himself on trial”. –Philo

“Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation”. –William Whewell

“When all candels be out, all cats be grey”. –John Heywood

“Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee”. –Immanuel Kant

“The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge”. –F.H. Bradley

“Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman to impose the Jews on the Arabs”. –Mahatma Gandhi

“The life of man is made up of action and endurance; and life is fruitful in the ratio in which it is laid out in noble action or in patient perseverance”. –Henry Liddon

“Familiarity breeds contempt, but privacy excites interest”. –Apuleius

“The organic fundamental error of humanism was that it desired to educate the common people (on whom it looked down) from its lofty stance instead of trying to understand them and to learn from them”. –Stefan Zweig

“The present reeks of mediocrity and the atom bomb”. –René Magritte

“He who has an opinion of his own, but depends upon the opinion and taste of others, is a slave”. –Friedrich Klopstock

“Better to be cheated by the price than by the merchandise”. –Baltasar Gracián

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see, it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters”. –eden ahbez

“Admire the diamond that can bear the hits of a hammer. Many deceptive prophets, when critically examined, turn out to be false”. –Kabir

“The true value of a man is not determined by his possession, supposed or real, of Truth, but rather by his sincere exertion to get to the Truth”. –Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

“The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil”. –Pythagoras

“Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers”. –Muhammad

“I once read that there’s nothing worse for everyone concerned than a reign that’s lasted too long. I’ve also heard that God is eternal”. –Nicolas Chamfort

“Something you want badly enough can always be gained. No matter how fierce the enemy, how remote the beautiful lady, or how carefully guarded the treasure, there is always a means to the goal for the earnest seeker”. –Dōgen

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

“The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers”. –Konrad Zuse

“He who cherishes a beautiful vision, a lofty ideal in his heart, will one day realize it”. –James Allen

“It is possible for a dictator to govern in a liberal way. And it is also possible for a democracy to govern with a total lack of liberalism. Personally, I prefer a liberal dictator to a democratic government lacking liberalism”. –Friedrich von Hayek

“We are near awakening when we dream that we dream”. –Novalis

“The fact is that those who are enslaved to their sects are not merely devoid of all sound knowledge, but they will not even stop to learn”. –Galen

“A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world”. –Louis Pasteur

“Every generation revolts against its fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers”. –Lewis Mumford

“Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man”. –Ludwig von Mises

“The greatness of Christianity did not lie in attempted negotiations for compromise with any similar philosophical opinions in the ancient world, but in its inexorable fanaticism in preaching and fighting for its doctrine”. –Adolf Hitler

“The mob is the mother of tyrants”. –Diogenes