To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. – Samuel Butler
A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide. – Samuel Butler
The world will only, in the end, follow those who have despised as well as served it. – Samuel Butler
For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine. – Samuel Butler
The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power. – Henry A. Wallace