Jason

“Faith must be shaken from time to time, or it becomes rigid. An excuse for any outrage. I have come to believe that the righteous… should always have doubts.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds

“They began by controlling books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, religious prejudice, union pressures, there was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

“And yet nothing of what he surmised meant a goddamn thing. None of his great ideas disposed of a single one of her difficulties.”
― Philip Roth, American Pastoral

“It was better not to mention things unless you were sure of the right language. Every day brought new wrong words to avoid. New ideas at odds with the Great Change. Everyone was free to say what they wanted now, of course. You just had to be careful in case it got you hanged.”
― Joe Abercrombie, The Wisdom of Crowds