„The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois American sociologist, historian, activist and writer 1868 - 1963
John Brown: A Biography (1909): "The Legacy of John Brown"
„The death of the spirit is the price of progress.“
— Eric Voegelin, Eric Voegelin (1987), The New Science of Politics: An Introduction, , p. 131
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— Frank Zappa American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer 1940 - 1993
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„Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.“
— Will Durant American historian, philosopher and writer 1885 - 1981
Context: Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
Quoted in "Books: The Great Gadfly", Time magazine, 8 October 1965 (review of The Age of Voltaire by Will and Ariel Durant)
„A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.“
— Joseph Stalin General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1878 - 1953
„The death of one is a tragedy, but death of a million is just a statistic.“
— Marilyn Manson American rock musician and actor 1969
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„How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.“
— Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers
„Every positive value has its price in negative terms... the genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.“
— Pablo Picasso Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer 1881 - 1973
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„Philosophy makes progress not by becoming more rigorous but by becoming more imaginative.“
— Richard Rorty American philosopher 1931 - 2007
Introduction to Truth and Progress: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 (1998).
„Coming together is a beginning, staying together is progress, and working together is success.“
— Henry Ford American industrialist 1863 - 1947
„I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.“
— Margaret Fuller American feminist, poet, author, and activist 1810 - 1850
„Believe in life! Always human beings will progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.“
— W.E.B. Du Bois American sociologist, historian, activist and writer 1868 - 1963
Last message to the world (written 1957); read at his funeral (1963)
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„Matter is spirit moving slowly enough to be seen.“
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin French philosopher and Jesuit priest 1881 - 1955
