Why Aren't You Outraged?

Ignorance allows the belief in perfection. You never need to question. At the same time, never to question is one of the few real sins for which your soul can be damned. - W. Michael Gear

Very few really seek knowledge in this world. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds--justification, explanations, forms of consolation without which they can't go on. To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner. - Marius, The Vampire Lestat, Anne Rice

Those who are able to see beyond the shadows and lies of their culture will never be understood, let alone believed, by the masses. - Plato

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

For the great majority of mankind are satisfied with appearances, as though they were realities, and are often more influenced by the things that seem than by those that are. - Niccolo Machiavelli

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. - Stanley Milgram

"We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

"Twaddle, rubbish, and gossip is what people want, not action. ... The secret of life is to chatter freely about all one wishes to do and how one is always being prevented-and then do nothing." - Soren Kierkegaard