Robert Brady Quotes

The 21st century is the century of knowledge. Knowledge, science and education will have the power and strength to embrace the entire universe.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance.

Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)

A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?

You gave us power in our words, so I think before I speak, and that way when I speak, they know I'm here to teach.

An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern.

I thought that words and books and pens were more powerful than guns.

There is no slight danger from general ignorance; and the only choice which Providence has graciously left to a vicious government is either to fall by the people, if they are suffered to become enlightened, or with them, if they are kept enslaved and ignorant.

I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia.

I see no other conceivable strategy for the achievement of liberty than political action. Religious or philosophical conversion of each man and woman is simply not going to work; that strategy ignores the problem of power, the fact that millions of people have a vested interest in statism and are not likely to give it up.... Education in liberty is of course vital, but it is not enough; action must also be taken to roll back the State.

Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about.

The content of a book holds the power of education and it is with this power that we can shape our future and change lives.

Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.

read thousands of books and I will power myself with knowledge. Pens and books are the weapons that defeat terrorism.

It is manifest that all government of action is to be gotten by knowledge, and knowledge best, by gathering many knowledges, which is reading.

Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind.

Knowledge is only potential power.

Nothing is more powerful and liberating than knowledge.

We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

The power of the Latin classic is in character , that of the Greek is in beauty . Now character is capable of being taught, learnt, and assimilated: beauty hardly.

Knowledge is pleasure as well as power.

In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and dignified humanity. In those countries where progress has been most rapid, the thirst for knowledge has been most intense.

Knowledge is your weapon...Kill them with it.