When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

- Stephen Vizinczey

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.

- Stephen Vizinczey

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

- Stephen Vizinczey

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal…

- Stephen Vizinczey

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

- Stephen Vizinczey

Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must li…

- Stephen Vizinczey

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

- Stephen Vizinczey

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

- Stephen Vizinczey

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

- Stephen Vizinczey