“All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.” MenHumansHas BeensValuesMoralProgressSocietyCurrentsSkepticDoubtedHuman ProgressMoral ValuesUncivilized Book:Minority Report Source: Minority Report
“None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.” MenHas BeensSocietyGreat MenHeresy Author:Saint Augustine
“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.” HumansHas BeensAgePastRaceVisionFailingSocietyCenturyHuman NatureGoodnessNobleDoctrineGoldenHuman RaceMischiefWhimGolden Age Author:Jacob Burckhardt