Gracjan

“Kids are perfect people till grownups get their hands on them.”
― John Irving

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum — even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”
― Noam Chomsky

“Logic is relative.”
― John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany

“People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.”
― John Irving, The Cider House Rules