Lance

“He felt that there is a loose balance of good and evil, and that the art of living consists in getting the greatest good out of the greatest evil.”
― Machado de Assis, Iaiá Garcia

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Science promised us truth, or at least a knowledge of such relations as our intelligence can seize: it never promised us peace or happiness.”
― Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd; study of the popular mind