Ideals and Ideas
Posted by Edward Caissie on August 21, 2009 in Musings | Short Link
I found these quotes at essentially the same time and an interesting thought came to mind.
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him.
Paul Eldridge
There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
Robertson Davies
The wisdom of a society is found in its ideals and its folly found in its ideas.
What are you willing to bring forward?
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