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• Our judgements judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.
  -- Paul Valery...
• Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves?
  Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance....
• All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." -- George Orwell, Animal Farm
• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
  -- George Orwell (1903-1950), "Animal Farm" 1945...
• There must be more to life than having everything. -- Maurice Sendak
• Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion. Arthur Koestle
• The decent moderation of today will be the least human of things tomorrow.
  At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretic...
• The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country.