“Man has, since the Enlightenment, dealt with things he should have ignored.”
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“A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.”
Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol (3 April 1777); as published in The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke (1899), vol. 2, p. 206
1770s

“The truly enlightened man has no learning, no virtue, no accomplishments, no fame.”
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Essays in Idleness (1967 Columbia University Press, Trns: Donald Keene)

“The secret of liberty is to enlighten men, as that of tyranny is to keep them in ignorance.”
As quoted in Human Rights and Freedoms in the USSR (1981) by Fedor Eliseevich Medvedev and Gennadiĭ Ivanovich Kulikov, p. 221
Original: Le secret de la liberté est d'éclairer les hommes, comme celui de la tyrannie est de les retenir dans l'ignorance
Variant: The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.
Source: Public statement (November 1792), quoted in Oeuvres de Maximilien Robespierre (1840), Volume 2, p. 253 http://books.google.com/books?id=iSMVAAAAQAAJ

Opinion: Turkey – Towards a “One and a Half Party” System http://english.aawsat.com/2016/08/article55355819/opinion-turkey-towards-one-half-party-system, Ashraq Al-Awsat (5 Aug, 2016).

“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.”
As quoted in Ethics and Citizenship (1924) by John Walter Wayland, p. 208.