“If the ignorant keeps silent, people would not differ.”
Muhammad al-Taqi (811–835) ninth of the Twelve Imams of Twelver Shi'ism
al-Shahid al-Tustari, Ihqaqul-Haq, vol.12, p. 432
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“Cold calculated awareness that their power lay in keeping the people in ignorance.”
— Robert A. Heinlein, book Lost Legacy
Lost Legacy (p. 333)
Short fiction, Off the Main Sequence (2005)
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