Out Of The Crooked Timber

When A Man Speaks Of The Need For Realism One May Be Sure That This Is Always The Prelude To Some Bloody Deed.

Few Things Have Done More Harm Than The Belief On The Part Of Individuals Or Groups (or Tribes Or States Or Nations Or Churches) That He Or She Or They Are In Sole Possession Of The Truth: Especially About How To Live, What To Be And Do - And That Those Who Differ From Them Are Not Merely Mistaken, But Wicked Or Mad: And Need Restraining Or Suppressing.

Few New Truths Have Ever Won Their Way Against The Resistance Of Established Ideas Save By Being Overstated.

One Belief, More Than Any Other, Is Responsible For The Slaughter Of Individuals On The Alter Of The Great Historical Ideas - Justice Or Progress Or Happiness Of Future Generations... Or Emancipation Of A Nation Or Race Or Class... This Is The Belief That Somewhere... There Is A Final Solution.

To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns.