To Understand Is To Perceive Patterns.

The First People Totalitarians Destroy Or Silence Are Men Of Ideas And Free Minds.

True Knowledge Is Knowledge Of Why Things Are As They Are, And Not Merely What They Are.

Out Of The Crooked Timber Of Humanity, Nothing Completely Straight Was Ever Made

Conformities Are Called For Much More Eagerly Today Than Yesterday... Skeptics, Liberals, Individuals With A Taste For Private Life And Their Own Inner Standards Of Behavior, Are Objects Of Fear And Derision And Targets Of Persecution For Either Side... In The Great Ideological Wars Of Our Time.

Only Barbarians Are Not Curious About Where They Come From, How They Came To Be Where They Are, Where They Appear To Be Going, Whether They Wish To Go There, And If So, Why, And If Not, Why Not.