JOHN WRAY

Only a blind man could have lived through these last years without seeing what was bearing down upon us; so I made myself blind as I could manage. I wanted to believe the worst was behind me, and I found an easy way to make it so. I simply turned my back on what was coming.

This "breakup over politics" whining is bullshit.

Sitting down for dinner with ANY Trump voter or non-voter is, by definition, support for their vote, any results of their vote in the coming years, and their hatred of their fellow human beings.

But to those with no real convictions, you do you.

URSULA K. LE GUIN

A Wizard of Earthsea

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It is very hard for evil to take hold of the unconsenting soul.

HANNAH ARENDT

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The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together.

PHILIP K. DICK

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The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

MARGARET MEAD

It seems to me very important to continue to distinguish between two evils. It may be necessary temporarily to accept a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good.