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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
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Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim.
When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent.
The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists.
There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.
People think of education as something that they can finish.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing.
There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
