Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief in Thirteenth Century ideas
Henry Louis Mencken
But any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood, and that is what happened to Jesus.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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It seems to me that a great university ought to have room in it for men subscribing to every sort of idea that is currently prevalent
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An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to accept this or that idea, not only on the ground that believing in it is an act of virtue, but also on the ground that doing so is prudent, is both a fool and a knave
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic
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The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new ideas; he is a man who seeks to search out and prick into energy the basic ideas that are already in th
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