“So long as power alone is on one side, and knowledge and understanding alone on the other, the learned will seldom make great objects their study… and people will continue to be, as they are, mean, corrupt, and miserable.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Discourse on the Arts and Sciences
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