Though dissenters seem to question everything in sight, they are actually bundles of dusty answers and never conceived a new question. What offends us most in the literature of dissent is the lack of hesitation and wonder.

Someone who thinks the world is always cheating him is right. He is missing that wonderful feeling of trust in someone or something.

That which corrodes the souls of the persecuted is the monstrous inner agreement with the prevailing prejudice against them.

It was the craving to be a one and only people which impelled the ancient Hebrews to invent a one and only God whose one and only people they were to be.

Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

Far more critical than what we know or what we don't know is what we don't want to know.

We are more prone to generalize the bad than the good. We assume that the bad is more potent and contagious.