Lance

“If we do not suffer a loss all the way to the end, it will wait for us. It won’t just dissipate and disappear. Rather, it will fester, and we will experience its sorrow later, in stranger forms.”
― Elizabeth Lesser, Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
― Plato

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

“Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde