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Alain (Emile Chartier)1 quote
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when you have only one idea. — Alain (Emile Chartier) · 1938Bill Clinton1 quote
Our greatest strength is the power of our ideas, which are still new in many lands. Across the world we see them embraced, and we rejoice. Our hopes, our hearts, our hands are with those on every continent who are building democracy and freedom. Their cause is America's cause. — Bill Clinton · 1993Cobb1 quote
An idea is like a virus. Resilient. Highly contagious and the smallest seed of an idea can grow. It can grow to define or destroy you. — Cobb · 2010Franklin D. Roosevelt1 quote
We all know that books burn-yet we have the greater knowledge that books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. No man and no force can put thought in a concentration camp forever. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny of every kind. In this war, we know, books are weapons. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1942Friedrich Nietzsche1 quote
He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. — Friedrich Nietzsche · 1886Heinrich Heine1 quote
Maximilien Robespierre was nothing but the hand of Jean Jacques Rousseau, the bloody hand that drew from the womb of time the body whose soul Rousseau had created. — Heinrich Heine · 1834Narrator (Twilight Zone)1 quote
The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices to be found only in the minds of men. — Narrator (Twilight Zone) · 1960Oliver Wendell Holmes1 quote
Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions. — Oliver Wendell Holmes · 1831Ralph Waldo Emerson1 quote
Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1841Sextus1 quote
You can break a man's skull, you can arrest him, you can throw him into a dungeon. But how do you control what's up here? How do you fight an idea? — Sextus · 1959Thomas Jefferson1 quote
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. — Thomas Jefferson · 1813Victor Hugo1 quote
An invasion of armies can be resisted; an invasion of ideas cannot be resisted. — Victor Hugo · 1878Winston Churchill1 quote
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. — Winston Churchill · 1943