“Emotions are the sums created by details, whether those details are true or not.”

“Emotions are the end result, the sum, of things learned”

“But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.”

“People are stupid. They will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true.”

“People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People’s heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool.”

“Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing.”

“There were those who loved liberty, who cried out to live their own lives, to strive, to rise above, to achieve, and those bent on the mindless equality of stagnation brought about through the enforcement of an artificial, arbitrary, gray uniformity--those who wanted to transcend through their own effort, and those who wanted others to think for them and were willing to pay the ultimate price.”