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The biggest cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid people are so sure about things and the intelligent people are so full of doubts.
— Bertrand Russell (1972-1970) British philosopher, historian, logician, mathematician, advocate for social reform, pacifist, prominent rationalist
I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life I absented myself from Christian assemblies.
— Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father
I am that gadfly which God has attached to the State, and all day long and in all places am always fastening upon you, arousing and persuading and reproaching you.
— Socrates (470-399 B.C.) Greek philosopher
Christ cannot possibly have been a Jew. I don’t have to prove that scientifically. It is a fact.
— Paul Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) German Nazi propaganda minister
Liberalism is extremely harmful. It is a corrosive which disrupts unity…. It deprives the revolutionary ranks of compact organization and discipline.
— Mao Zedong (1893-1976) Founder, Chinese Communist state
You’re a rinky-dink state, and it serves Florida right. … We don’t forget. Maybe we ought to punish Florida more for what happened in 2000.
— Educator Mary Ann Reynolds, before a Barak Obama rally in New Hampshire
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
— Benito Mussolini (1893-1945) journalist, Fascist dictator of Italy
During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution.
— James Madison, U.S. President and Founding Father (1751-1836)
In the principle of equality I discern two tendencies: the one leading the mind of every man to untried thoughts; the other prohibiting him from thinking at all.
— Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) French statesman
Real news is bad news.
— Marchall McLuhan (1911-1980) Canadian cultural critic, author
