“Ideology always paves the way toward atrocity.”

— Terence McKenna

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American ethnobotanist 1946–2000

Charles Patterson (author) (1935) American author and historian

Source: Eternal Treblinka (2002), p. 12

“If the way to hell is paved with good intentions, the way to defeat is paved with illusions.”

Wilhelm Liebknecht (1826–1900) German socialist politician

No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)

“The evolution of our individual consciousness paves the way toward the evolution of our collective consciousness. This individual-collective evolution, more than anything else, can and must change this world.”

Ervin László (1932) Hungarian musician and philosopher

Source: You Can Change the World (2003), p. 68.

“Detraction paves the way for the very perfections which it doubts and denies.”

Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) American social reformer, orator, writer and statesman

1870s, Self-Made Men (1872)

“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher

[N]ur die Höllenfahrt des Selbsterkenntnisses bahnt den Weg zur Vergötterung ...
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Metaphysics of Morals (1797)

“The information they get comes from ideological fanatics, typically, who always misunderstand things in their own crazy way.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Q&A with community activists, February 10, 1989.
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s
Context: If any of you have ever looked at your FBI file, you discover that intelligence agencies in general are extremely incompetent. That's one of the reasons why there are so many intelligence failures. They just never get anything straight, for all kinds of reasons. Part of it is because of the information they get. The information they get comes from ideological fanatics, typically, who always misunderstand things in their own crazy way. If you look at an FBI file, say, about yourself, where you know what the facts are, you'll see that the information has some kind of relation to the facts, you can figure out what they're talking about, but by the time it works its way through the ideological fanaticism of the intelligence agencies, there's always weird distortion.