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"Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other."
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"The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."
"In this world, it is a great Self-effort to deliberately remain ignorant despite knowing, right? I deliberately remain ignorant in spite of having the Knowledge."
"Attachment-abhorrence is an 'effect' and ignorance (of the self) is the 'cause'!"
"A lack of knowledge always leads to defeat and destruction."
"Until ignorance, of one's own Self (the Soul), is removed, illusory attachment (moha) will not go away."
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"The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms."
"It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil."
"It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
"All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities."
"It is the besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which the masses of men exhibit their tyranny."
"Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party."
"They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another;' a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory."
"It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master."
"The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority."
"Slavery is no more sinful, by the Christian code, than it is sinful to wear a whole coat, while another is in tatters, to eat a better meal than a neighbor, or otherwise to enjoy ease and plenty, while our fellow creatures are suffering and in want."
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