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“Like pornographers fretting under the burden of their wish dreams, these obscene buffoons suddenly found it unnecessary to assuage their fever among the pages of forbidden books or to pay for relief in some bordello, because a government of lonely fanatics swept into power and gradually lent official sanction to the dirtiest, saddest aspects of human nature, the lack of imagination which leads the ill to put their most libidinous nightmares into practice.”
― Peter Ustinov, We Were Only Human

“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

“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

“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