Matthew Wagoner

“That is the nature of women,” said Don Quixote. “They reject the man who loves them and love the man who despises them.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“It is my duty, said he, to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all.”
― John Bunyan, The Pilgrim's Progress

“there are many theologians who are not good in the pulpit but are excellent at recognizing the lacks or excesses of those who preach.”
― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote

“The elite, and those who work for them, were never taught how to question the assumptions of their age. The socially important knowledge and cultural ideas embodied in history, literature, philosophy, and religion, which are at their core subversive and threatening to authority, have been banished from public discourse.”
― Chris Hedges, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle