Source: The Libertarian Alternative, (1977), p. 12
“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”
Principles to Form the Basis of the Administration of the Republic (February 1794)
Original: (it) Le persone prive di qualsiasi forma d'amore sono le più pericolose. Le trovi ovunque, diffida delle apparenze.
Source: prevale.net
Address to the United Nations General Assembly https://archive.is/hZjh9#selection-723.6-723.114 (1 October 2013).
2010s, 2013
“Propaganda is the executive arm of the invisible government.”
Source: Propaganda (1928), p. 48
“Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob.”
1930s, Address at Madison Square Garden (1936)
Context: We had to struggle with the old enemies of peace — business and financial monopoly, speculation, reckless banking, class antagonism, sectionalism, war profiteering. They had begun to consider the Government of the United States as a mere appendage to their own affairs. We know now that Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob. Never before in all our history have these forces been so united against one candidate as they stand today. They are unanimous in their hate for me — and I welcome their hatred.
Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, Anchor Books, 2008, page 390
“The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.”
Letter to Mary Gladstone (1881)
Context: The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern. The law of liberty tends to abolish the reign of race over race, of faith over faith, of class over class.
“Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.”
Hugh Crane a.k.a. Cagliostro the Great, in Schrödinger's Cat Trilogy : The Trick Top Hat (1979)
Context: There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped. We are all absolutely free. If everybody could go into dhyana at will, nobody could be controlled — by fear of prison, by fear of whips or electroshock, by fear of death, even. All existing society is based on keeping those fears alive, to control the masses. Ten people who know would be more dangerous than a million armed anarchists.
