“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."

-Dante Alighieri

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

-Ambrose Bierce

Politics have no relation to morals.

-Niccolo Machiavelli

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.
-Leo Tolstoy

“Sometimes people hold a core belief that is very strong. When they are
presented with evidence that works against that belief, the new
evidence cannot be accepted. It would create a feeling that is
extremely uncomfortable, called cognitive dissonance. And because it
is so important to protect the core belief, they will rationalize,
ignore and even deny anything that doesn't fit in with the core belief.”
― Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks

"America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters."
-Kurt Vonnegut

Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.
--W. E. B. Du Bois

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
-John Steinbeck