“Most people cant' deal with reality, but indulge heavily in fantasy and fear.”
“Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.”
“Love'--romantic love, anyway--was a fantasy people indulged in because otherwise, life was just too boring to tolerate.”
“Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.”
“See fantasy is what people want, but reality is what they need. And I just retired from the fantasy part.”
“...many people prefer the comfort of fantasy to the harshness of reality. They seem to reason this way: 'How can I arrange my beliefs so I'll feel most comfortable?' rather than arranging them to agree with reality.”