"They muddy their waters in order to appear deep." - Nietzsche
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"You can't fight ideas with bullets." - Deus Ex
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"The road to hell is paved with good intentions."
"If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life." - H. Thoreau
*** (all quotes below from Captain Jean-Luc Picard, ST:TNG, The Drumhead)
"Have we become so fearful,...so cowardly, that we must extinguish a man because he carries the blood of a current enemy?"
"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably...The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged."
"...villians who twirl their mustaches are easy to spot. Those who clothe themselves in good deeds are well camouflaged."