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The first step in a fascist movement is the combination under an energetic leader of a number of men who possess more than the average share of leisure, brutality, and stupidity. The next step is to fascinate fools and muzzle the intelligent, by emotional excitement on the one hand and terrorism on the other.
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.
None of our beliefs are quite true; all have at least a penumbra of vagueness and error.
If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present.
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Every great idea starts out as a blasphemy.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
Why repeat the old errors, if there are so many new errors to commit?
My first advice (on how not to grow old) would be to choose you ancestors carefully.
