Prejudice

 "The individual black workman is rated not by his own efficiency, but by the efficiency of a whole group of black fellow workmen, which may often be low. If white people were to lose their racial prejudices overnight, this would make very little immediate difference in the economic condition of most blacks. Some few would be promoted, some few would get new places, but the mass would remain as they are, until the younger generation began to try harder, and until the idle and discouraged were stimulated and the whole race lost the omnipresent excuse for failure: prejudice." 

 - W.E.B. DuBois as quoted by Thomas Sowell in "Race and Culture" p. 90

Freedom

 "The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant."

- Maximilian Robespierre

Tyranny

 Democracy is as much a tyranny as despotism is. It is just tyranny of the majority.

- MG

Ignorance

 "The more dangerous kind of ignorance is the ignorance of the educated."

- Thomas Sowell, "Race and Culture" p. 102

Patriotism

 "Naturally, the common people do not want war,neither in Russia nor in England nor in America nor, for that matter, in Germany. That is understood. But the people Can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."

- Hermann Goering at Nurenberg trial