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"Consensus: “The process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values, and policies in search of something in which no one believes, but to which no one objects; the process of avoiding the very issues that have to be solved, merely because you cannot get agreement on the way ahead.”

- Margaret Thatcher

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”

- Isaac Asimov

“The less fortunate will never have what they need until we who are more fortunate realize how little we require to be happy.”

- James Castleton

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

- Dorothea Lange

"Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”

- Susan Sontag

“He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.”

- Augustine of Hippo, City of God

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

- Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms

"For a doctrine which is able to maintain itself not in clear light but only in the dark, will of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human progress.

- Albert Einstein, Science and Religion 1941

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”

- Edward Everett Hale

“Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.”

- Hannah Arendt