“No one can learn tolerance in a climate of irresponsibility, which does not produce democracy. The act of tolerating requires a climate in which limits may be established, in which there are principles to be respected. That is why tolerance is not coexistence with the intolerable. Under an authoritarian regime, in which authority is abused, or a permissive one, in which freedom is not limited, one can hardly learn tolerance. Tolerance requires respect, discipline, and ethics.” MayDoePrinciplesDemocracySocietyProduceDisciplineLimitsAuthorityEthicsClimateToleranceRegimesCoexistenceIrresponsibility Author:Paulo Freire
“The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become robots.” MenMayPastSocietyDangerFutureAngerSlaveSaneRobotsMeaningless Life Author:Erich Fromm
“The Don Quixote of one generation may live to hear himself called the savior of society by the next.” MayNextGenerationsSocietySavior Book:Books and Libraries: And Other Papers Source: Books and Libraries: And Other Papers
“Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or "playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man.” MenHumansMayVisionSocietyPlanningConsistentFundamentalistUsurpationCentral PlanningPlaying GodFundamentalist Religion Book:A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles Source: A Conflict of Visions: Idealogical Origins of Political Struggles
“Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen.” HumansMayHappensOpportunitySocietyPrideCivilizationAccidentsDependentPreservationMaximumHumiliating Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“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 behooves the well-intentioned, therefore, vigorously to watch the tendency of even their most highly prized institutions, since that which was established in the interests of the right, may so easily become the agent of the wrong.” WellsMayEvilInterestPrinciplesWatchesVirtueSocietyProduceIntegrityAimInstitutionsCorruptionTendenciesAgentsAgencyProductiveGoverning Author:James F. Cooper
“There may be many who will gladly face death in the battlefield, but few who will face a hostile society.” MayFacesSocietyHostileBattlefields Author:Thiruvalluvar