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You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
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The worst enemy of truth and freedom in our society is the compact majority. Yes, the damned, compact, liberal majority.
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What sort of truths are they that the majority usually supports? They are truths that are of such advanced age that they are beginning to break up. And if a truth is as old as that, it is also in a fair way to become a lie, gentlemen.
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Tho' Doubt's beleaguering forces hem us in,
Yet Truth upon the Serpent's head shall trample.
The cause of Love shall win —
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority.
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The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society.
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You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
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I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.
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I'm plotting revolution against this lie that the majority has a monopoly of the truth. What are these truths that always bring the majority rallying round? Truths so elderly they are practically senile. And when a truth is as old as that, gentlemen, you can hardly tell it from a lie.
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The intellectual is a middle-class product; if he is not born into the class he must soon insert himself into it, in order to exist. He is the fine nervous flower of the bourgeoisie.
Louise Bogan
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Born:
March 20, 1828
Died:
May 23, 1906
(aged 78)
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