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At least two-thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity: idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political ideas. --Aldous Huxley
A nation, like a tree, does not thrive well till it is engraffed with a foreign stock. --Ralph Waldo Emerson,Journals, 1823
The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction. Opinions in politics and religion are almost always held passionately. --Bertrand Russell, introduction toSceptical Essays,1961
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. --Thomas Jefferson, letter to Peter Carr, Aug. 10, 1787
Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. --Oscar Wilde (in conversation)
Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason, and invective for documentation than in politics. --John Mason Brown, Through These Men 1952
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