#lightened

The only people available to change the world are the people now living in it, with all the beliefs they bring along - however retrograde those beliefs may appear to those of us who see ourselves as enlightened. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

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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 greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

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But while human liberty has engaged the attention of the enlightened, and enlisted the feelings of the generous of all civilized nations, may we not enquire if this liberty has been rightly understood? ↗

— Francis Wright

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Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

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