“Look again, and see what will naturally follow if the prisoners are released and disabused of their error. At first, when any of them is liberated and compelled suddenly to stand up and turn his neck round and walk and look towards the light, he will suffer sharp pains; the glare will distress him, and he will be unable to see the realities of which in his former state he had seen the shadows; and then conceive some one saying to him, that what he saw before was an illusion, but that now, when he is approaching nearer to being and his eye is turned towards more real existence, he has a clearer vision,—what will be his reply?” Republic

Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. A Journal of Democracy

In time of war, when truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Never Give In!

That’s the problem, we do get used to things. The Zahir