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Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Lucius Cassius ille quem populus Romanus verissimum et sapientissimum iudicem putabat identidem in causis quaerere solebat 'cui bono' fuisset.

The famous Lucius Cassius, whom the Roman people used to regard as a very honest and wise judge, was in the habit of asking, time and again, 'To whose benefit?”
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Immanuel Kant
“Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done”
Immanuel Kant

Socrates
“There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse.”
Socrates

Daniel C. Dennett
“People are afraid of being more ignorant than their children―especially, apparantly, their daughters.”
Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

George Bernard Shaw
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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