There are different kinds of truths for different kinds of people: truths appropriate for children; truths that are appropriate for students; truths that are appropriate for educated adults; truths that are appropriate for highly educated adults, and the notion that there should be one set of truths available to everyone is a modern democratic fallacy. It doesn't work. Irving Kristol. (Conservative author, considered one ot the key archtects of the neo-conservative movement. Big supporter of George W. Bush.)

Karl Marx 1848

All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with his sober senses his real conditions of life and his relations with his kind. The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the whole surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere. The bourgeoisie has through its exploitation of the world market given a cosmopolitan character to production and consumption in every country.... It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilisation into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.

"We say outright: these are madmen, yet these madmen have their own logic, their teaching, their code, their God even, and it's as deepset as could be."

—Fyodor Dostoevsky

Bertrand Russell

We want to stand upon our own feet and look fair and square at the world -- its good facts, its bad facts, its beauties, and its ugliness; see the world as it is and be not afraid of it. Conquer the world by intelligence and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.(From the 1927 essay " Why I am not a christian."

The American historian Brooks Adams (1848-1927) defined history as "just one goddamn thing after another."

Bishop Joseph Butler (1692-1752)

Why might not whole communities and public bodies be seized with fits of insanity, as well as individuals? Nothing but this principle, that they are liable to insanity, equally at least with private persons, can account for the major part of those transactions of which we read in history.