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“There are no dangerous thoughts. Thinking itself is dangerous.”

—Hannah Arendt

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“Heretics are the only (bitter) remedy against the entropy of human thought.”

—Yevgeny Zamyatin

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“Progress is not achieved by preachers and guardians of morality, but… by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels and skeptics.”

—Stephen Fry, Munk Debate on Political Correctness

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“One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid. Those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision.”

—Bertrand Russell

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.”

—Thoreau

“The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.”

― Robert A. Heinlein

“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”

–George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings

“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive.”

—James Baldwin

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