Men and their works have been a disease on the surface of their planets before now. Nature tends to compensate for diseases, to remove or encapsulate… - Frank Herbert

They who learn the lesson of self-deception too well shall perish by that deception.

Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself — a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.

They’re trained to believe, not to know. Belief can be manipulated. Only knowledge is dangerous.