Donna Barton

“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession

“Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

“Common sense is not so common.”
― Voltaire, A Pocket Philosophical Dictionary