“There is never any fair and thorough discussion of heretical opinions... The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.” ReasonDoneWholeOpinionDevelopmentSpeechFairsHarmOppressionDiscussionHeresyThoroughHereticFree Thought Book:On Liberty Source: On Liberty
“If we have isolated individuals able to inflict enormous harm, imagine what a single lunatic can do with a nuclear weapon. I think the whole base of civil society is at risk.” IfsThinkingWholeAbleIndividualCan DoImagineRiskWeaponsHarmNuclearEnormousIsolatedNuclear WeaponsLunaticCivil Society Author:Joshua Lederberg
“In economics, unlike fiction and the theater, there is no harm in a premature disclosure of the plot: it is to see the changes just mentioned and others as an interlocked whole.” WholeFictionEconomicsTheaterHarmPlotPrematureDisclosure Book:the new industrial state Source: the new industrial state