"It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong."

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Source : "The Age of Louis XIV". Book by Voltaire, 1751.

Voltaire

#Inspirational Quotes #Political Quotes #Cynical Quotes

“The persecution of Jews in occupied Poland meant that we could see horror emerging gradually in many ways. In 1939, they were forced to wear Jewish stars, and people were herded and shut up into ghettos. Then, in the years '41 and '42 there was plenty of public evidence of pure sadism. With people behaving like pigs, I felt the Jews were being destroyed. I had to help them. There was no choice.”

Source : Interview at Am Hauptbahn No. 4 in Frankfurt Am Main, West Germany, 1964.
“I am learning, as I make my way through my first continent, that it is remarkably easy to do things, and much more frightening to contemplate them.”

Source : Ted Simon (2007). “Jupiter's Travels”, p.194, Penguin UK
“I am the conscience of the 21st Century.”

Source : International Herald Tribune, November 24, 2005.
“Dave played an important part in our growing, but change occurs.”
“People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.”
“I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All I got from van Looy and his cronies was ridicule, not one piece of help or advice. They were very unfair, I was still just a naÃ¯ve young boy really. With Peugeot, and especially with Tom [Simpson], it was completely different,”
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”

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