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As soon as any man says of the affairs of the State "What does it matter to me?" the State may be given up for lost.
--Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Reason is a scoundrel, stupidity is direct and honest.
--Ivan Fyodorovich Karamazov, from Dostoevsky's the Brothers Karamazov

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
--Bertrand Russell

The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
--George Orwell

The wise and virtuous man is at all times willing that his own personal interest should be sacrificed to the public interest of his own particular order or society.
--From Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments

Virtue in rags is still virtue...
--From David Hume's A Treatise of Human Nature

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