Morally, a philosopher who uses his professional competence for anything
except a disinterested search for truth is guilty of a kind of treachery.

   - Bertrand Russell


There can be no liberty for a community which lacks
the information to detect lies.

   - journalist and social philosopher Walter Lippmann, 1919


Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among
their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

   - William H. Beveridge, 1944 


To understand 9/11 is to understand much.  
   - 911 University, 2004