The First People Totalitarians Destroy Or Silence

Out Of The Crooked Timber Of Humanity, Nothing Completely Straight Was Ever Made

Few New Truths Have Ever Won Their Way Against The Resistance Of Established Ideas Save By Being Overstated.

Injustice, Poverty, Slavery, Ignorance - These May Be Cured By Reform Or Revolution. But Men Do Not Live Only By Fighting Evils. They Live By Positive Goals, Individual And Collective, A Vast Variety Of Them, Seldom Predictable, At Times Incompatible.

All Forms Of Tampering With Human Beings, Getting At Them, Shaping Them Against Their Will To Your Own Pattern, All Thought Control And Conditioning Is, Therefore, A Denial Of That In Men Which Makes Them Men And Their Values Ultimate.

When A Man Speaks Of The Need For Realism One May Be Sure That This Is Always The Prelude To Some Bloody Deed.