“The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness of other possibilities.”— Allan Bloom
“If you see in any given situation only what everybody else can see, you can be said to be so much a representative of your culture that you are a victim of it.”— S. I. Hayakawa
“A Prophet is a man who speaks from his own heart. A sectary is a man who speaks from some other man’s.”— Frederic Henry Hedge
“It will never be known what acts of cowardice have been motivated by the fear of not looking sufficiently progressive.”— Charles Péguy
“I think one of the things that is wrong with the world today is that people are not prepared to be unpopular.”— Alan Bates
“The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves...”— Noam Chomsky
“The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness.”— Eugène Ionesco