Dan

“Men try to do battle with error, but when the fight is over they have the uncomfortable feeling that the human soul is more at home with illusion than with truth and that they ought to admit it.”
― Paul Hazard, paraphrasing Pierre Bayle in "The Crisis of the European Mind 1680-1715"

“From 1966 to 1976 ... The primary cause in [the] decline in FBI counterespionage and counterintelligence cases was the ceaseless demand by Presidents Johnson and Nixon to focus on the political warfare against the American left.... - "Espionage Against the United States by American Citizens, 1947-2001, Defense Personnel Security Research Center, July 2002”
― Tim Weiner, Enemies: A History of the FBI

“The "right" is nothing more than what benefits the powerful.”
― Plato

“In that old Potter's Shop I stood alone
with the clay Population round in Rows.

And strange to tell among the Earthen Lot
Some could articulate, while others not:
And suddenly one more impatient cried-
"Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?”
― Omar Khayyám, translated by Edward FitzGerald