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Umberto Eco
“Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.”
Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

Barbara W. Tuchman
“The cracking of old and famous structures is slow and internal, while the facade holds.”
Barbara W. Tuchman, A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century

Will Durant
“A nation is born stoic, and dies epicurean. At its cradle (to repeat a thoughtful adage) religion stands, and philosophy accompanies it to the grave.
In the beginning of all cultures a strong religious faith conceals and softens the nature of things, and gives men courage to bear pain and hardship patiently; at every step the gods are with them, and will not let them perish, until they do. Even then a firm faith will explain that it was the sins of the people that turned their gods to an avenging wrath; evil does not destroy faith, but strengthens it. If victory comes, if war is forgotten in security and peace, then wealth grows; the life of the body gives way, in the dominant classes, to the life of the senses and the mind; toil and suffering are replaced by pleasure and ease; science weakens faith even while thought and comfort weaken virility and fortitude. At last men begin to doubt the gods; they mourn the tragedy of knowledge, and seek refuge in every passing delight.
Achilles is at the beginning, Epicurus at the end. After David comes Job, and after Job, Ecclesiastes.”
Will Durant, Our Oriental Heritage

C.S. Lewis
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
C. S. Lewis

Peter Ustinov
“The lack of a personal core is at the base of such men, the inability to support doubt in any form, the fear of facing themselves...”
Peter Ustinov, We Were Only Human

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