The idealist is incorrigible: if he be thrown out — Friedrich Nietzsche
The idealist is incorrigible: if he be thrown out of his Heaven, he makes himself a suitable ideal out of Hell.
From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.
Sigmund Freud
To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.
Abraham Lincoln
The cruellest lies are often told in silence. Virginibus Puerisque (1881) title essay, pt. 4
Robert Louis Stevenson
Committee—a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done
Fred Allen