“Powerful people cannot afford to educate the people that they oppress, because once you are truly educated, you will not ask for power. You will take it.”
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American historian and writer 1915–1998Related quotes
We are 35th in the world league of education standards – 35th. At every level, radical improvement and reform.
"We are back as the people's party, says Blair", The Times, 2 October 1996.
1990s
As quoted in "HK's Tsang apologises for gaffe" at BBC News (13 October 2007) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7042941.stm
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If you go to the extreme you have the cultural revolution for instance in China. Then people take everything into their hands, then you cannot govern the place. … It was people taking power into their own hands. This is what we mean by democracy.
As quoted in "Hong Kong leader apologises for democracy gaffe" at AFP (14 October 2007) http://web.archive.org/web/20070609092458/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h_ytPeUlA7mXw3eMQ6WHSo_emsLw
On achieving the position of leader of Scientology — .
An Interview with Jean-Michel Cousteau https://kerdowney.com/2017/05/jean-michel-cousteau-part-two/ (May 17, 2017)
“You educate a man; you educate a Man. You educate a woman; you educate a Generation. ”
“If you don’t give education to people, it is easy to manipulate them.”
“Without education, we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.”
Collected Works of G.K. Chesterton : The Illustrated London News, 1905-1907 (1986), p. 71