David

“Socialization is not primarily cognitive. We are not persuaded rationally not to pee in the living room; we are required not to. We then rationalize and obey this rule even when no authority figure lurks to enforce it.”
― James W Loewen, Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

“It is healthier for us to have questions we cannot answer, than to have answers we cannot question.”
― Yuval Noah Harari, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

“Americans of the nineteenth century were not inclined to leave to private lawyers any more than to public men the conception, execution, and interpretation of public laws. The conviction was generally that no aristocracy existed with respect to the Constitution. Like politics, with which it was inextricably joined, the Constitution was everybody's business. That attitude should prevail today.”
― Louis Fisher Congressional Research Service

“Every man is important if he loses his life; and every man is funny if he loses his hat and has to run after it.”
― G. K. Chesterton