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“When you are not a hero, you will have heros.”
― none

“We attract hearts by the qualities we display; we retain them by the qualities we possess”
― Jean Baptiste Antoine Suard

“You don’t understand the basic assumptions of your own culture if your own culture is the only culture you know.”
― Alan Watts

“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“If you decide not to make use of the opportunities you have, not to live your life in a way that's constructive and helpful, you end up looking back and asking, 'why did I bother living?”
― Noam Chomsky

“Power remains strong when it remains in the dark; exposed to the sunlight it begins to evaporate.”
― Samuel P. Huntington, American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony

“Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity.”
― Cornelius Tacitus, Annals

“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable.”
― President John F. Kennedy

“To acquire immunity to eloquence is of the utmost importance to the citizens of a democracy.”
― Bertrand Russell

“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society: Study in Ethics and Politics

“Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau