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Man is constantly being assured that he has more power than ever before in history, but his daily experience is one of powerlessness. …

— Richard Weaver Ideas have Consequences (1948)

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He has been told that knowledge is power, and knowledge consists of a great many small things.

Ideas have Consequences (1948)

When we affirm that philosophy begins with wonder, we are affirming in effect that sentiment is prior to reason.

Ideas have Consequences (1948)

Specialization develops only part of a man; a man partially developed is deformed.

Nothing is more certain than that whatever has to court public favor for its support will sooner or later be prostituted to utilitarian ends.

Ideas have Consequences (1948)

Rhetoric in its truest sense seeks to perfect men by showing them better versions of themselves, links in that chain extending up toward the ideal.

The Ethics of Rhetoric (1953)

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The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

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There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

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When we see a great man desiring power instead of his real goal we soon recognize that he is sick, or more precisely that his attitude to his work is sick.

Martin Buber What is Man? (1938)

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.

C. S. Lewis God in the Dock (1970)

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