if people believe this, they would act on that belief. Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted - Isaac Asimov

Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.

Probably, the most-often-repeated lesson in history is that foreigners who are called in to help one side in a civil war take over for themselves. It is a lesson that seems never to be learned despite endless repetition.

There isn’t an instinct around that can’t give way to a good, persistent education. Not in human beings, where instincts are weak anyway. In fact, if you go about it right, education gets easier with each generation.