Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
Original French: Le secret de la liberté est d'éclairer les hommes, comme celui de la tyrannie est de les retenir dans l'ignorance <br class="br">Source: Oeuvres, Volume 2 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSMVAAAAQAAJ p. 253.
“All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.”
Cory Doctorow Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town
Source: Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town (2005)
Seth Godin (1960) American entrepreneur, author and public speaker
Source: Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?
“He who would know the secret of both worlds,
Will find the secret of them both, is Love.”
Attar of Nishapur (1145–1230) Persian Sufi poet
"Intoxicated by the Wine of Love" as translated by Margaret Smith from "The Jawhar Al-Dhat"
“The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance.”
Maximilien Robespierre (1758–1794) French revolutionary lawyer and politician
As quoted in Human Rights and Freedoms in the USSR (1981) by Fedor Eliseevich Medvedev and Gennadiĭ Ivanovich Kulikov, p. 221 <br class="br">Original: Le secret de la liberté est d'éclairer les hommes, comme celui de la tyrannie est de les retenir dans l'ignorance <br class="br">Variant: The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant. <br class="br">Source: Public statement (November 1792), quoted in Oeuvres de Maximilien Robespierre (1840), Volume 2, p. 253 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSMVAAAAQAAJ
“Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.”
Gregory David Roberts book Shantaram
Source: Shantaram
“We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" The Secret Sits http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-secret-sits/" (1942) <br class="br">1940s
