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A crowd of grade-three thinkers, all shouting the same thing, all warming their hands at the fire of their own prejudices, will not thank you for pointing out the contradictions in their beliefs. Man is a gregarious animal, and enjoys agreement as cows will graze all the same way on the side of a hill.

William Golding
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We're all mad, the whole damned race. We're wrapped in illusions, delusions, confusions about the penetrability of partitions, we're all mad and in s…

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What are we? Humans? Or animals? Or savages?

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We have a disharmony in our natures. We cannot live together without injuring each other.

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I am astonished at the ease with which uninformed persons come to a settled, a passionate opinion when they have no grounds for judgment.

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I began to see what people were capable of doing. Anyone who moved through those years without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces…

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I believe man suffers from an appalling ignorance of his own nature. I produce my own view in the belief that it may be something like the truth.

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The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

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Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

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