Friday's Pearls of Wisdom

Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964) was the first prime minister of independent India. A disciple of Gandhi, he was a committed advocate of education and democracy. The following comes from the book he wrote in 1937 called The Unity of India:

"Long experience has taught us that it is dangerous
in the interest of truth to suppress opinion and ideas;
it has further taught us that it is foolish to imagine
that we can do so. It is far easier to meet an evil in
the open and defeat it in fair combat in people's minds,
than to drive it underground and have no hold on it
or proper approach to it. Evil flourishes far more
in the shadows than in the light of day."