Selected Quotations for the Ideological Skeptic

Selected Quotations for the Ideological Skeptic by Laird Wilcox

All new edition, 1999.

An extensive collection of over two thousand selected quotations on ideological belief systems, political psychology, mysticism, superstition, fanaticism, totalitarianism, intolerance, paranoia, indoctrination, conspiracy theories, propaganda, deception, subversion, metaphysics, logic, rhetoric, revolution, altruism, civil liberties, free speech, fallacies, envy, tyranny, mass movements, utopianism, idealism, and many other related subjects.

Contributors include Adams, Amiel, Arendt, Arieti, Aristotle, Aron, Bakunin, Barth, Bastiat, Bell, Bennet, Berger, Berke, Berlin, Beveridge, Bierce, Black, Bloom, Boorstin, Branden, Brandies, Burke, Caesar, Camus, Cassirer, Chesterton, Chomsky, Clark, Colton, Commager, Conrad, Cooper, Cousins, Cuzzort, Darrow, Descartes, Dewey, Djilas, Doob, Dostoevsky, Durant, Eastman, Edelman, Ellis, Ellul, Emerson, Epictetus, Erikson, Forster, Freud, Fromm, Fuller, Gandhi, Gibran, Gide, Goethe, Gurr, Halle, Hayek, Haynal, Hazlitt, Hegel, Hoffer, Hofstadter, Holmes, Howe, Hubbard, Huxley, Inge, Ingersoll, Jackson, James, Jefferson, Jung, Kant, Kaplan, Keen, Klapp, Koestler, Kurtz, Laing, Lane, Langer, Lasswell, LeBon, Lenin, Lindner, Lippmann, Locke, Machiavelli, Maslow, Maugham, McLuhan, Melton, Mencken, Merloo, Meyer, Mill, Molnar, Montaigne, Niebuhr, Nietzsche, Nisbet, Orwell, Oskamp, Paine, Pareto, Pascal, Plato, Qualter, Rand, Revel, Riesman, Rokeach, Rosseau, Ruskin, Russell, Sagan, Santayana, Sargent, Sarte, Schoeck, Schumpeter, Serban, Shestov, Shils, Silone, Solzhenitsyn, Spender, Sullivan, Sumner, Rawney, Teale, Thoreau, Tocqueville, Tolstoy, Toynbee, Trilling, Tuchman, Voltaire, Wallis, Watzlawick, Weber, Wells, Wilde, Yeates, and Zola.

Laird Wilcox, Editor — ISBN 0-933592-93-0 — $19.95

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