Dan

“He is a sensible man who does not grieve for what he has not, but enjoys what he has.”
― Democritus

“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"

“...faith draws its fanatical power from the fact that it is not knowledge: it is blind, passionate, stubborn, and stupid; what it puts forward is done unconditionally, against reason, against history, against all refutation.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex

“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