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It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years. ↗

— Alexander Haig

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I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

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The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. ↗

— Anthony Kennedy

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Hatred never ceases with hatred, but with love alone is healed. ↗

— T. Scott McLeod

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It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution. ↗

— Sun Tzu

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If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions. ↗

— Marvin Harris

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The social and industrial structure of America is founded upon an enlightened citizenship. ↗

— Bainbridge Colby

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I understood that the will could not be improved before the mind had been enlightened. ↗

— Johann Heinrich Lambert

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We stumble and fall constantly even when we are most enlightened. But when we are in true spiritual darkness, we do not even know that we have fallen. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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