->''"Madness is horrific, but there's a kind of comfort in the madness we make ourselves. Strip away logic and consistency, and you're left with an ever-shifting morass of phenomena where you can be, do, and believe anything you want, where consequences can be dismissed as the flawed reasoning of thinkers limited by cause-and-effect, where contradictions are merely two sides of the richness of your ideas."''
-->-- '''an excerpt from TabletopGame/GeniusTheTransgression, describing the Phenomenologists'''

->''"[[MoralMyopia The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side]], but [[SelectiveObliviousness he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them]]."''
-->-- '''Creator/GeorgeOrwell''', ''[[http://www.k-1.com/Orwell/site/work/essays/nationalism.html Notes on Nationalism]]''

->''"Faith is believing what you know ain't so."''
-->--'''Creator/MarkTwain'''

->''"What I'm doing is wrong, I know it's wrong, but I'm gonna do it anyways."''
-->--'''Various sources, most notably WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter'''

->''"Any ordinary [[TheFundamentalist fundie]] can [[IRejectYourReality disregard reality for their belief system]]. It takes a [[InsaneTrollLogic special kind of fundie]] to believe both that [[Literature/TheBible the bible]] is the perfect, inerrant word of god, and that he needs to rewrite the bible because it's full of liberal bias."''
-->--'''Haseen''', [[https://fstdt.proboards.com/post/137530 Fundies Say The Darndest Things forums]], talking about Andrew Schlafly's The Conservative Bible Project

->''"UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump supporters are struggling right now. They are having to simultaneously think Coronavirus is just the flu while also thinking it's a [[YellowPeril Chinese bio weapon]] designed to [[RedScare turn them communist]] all while standing in their kitchens [[TooDumbToLive injecting disinfectant into themselves]]. Hard."''
-->--'''Matt Haig'''

->''"In my opinion, in order to save the citizenry from themselves, we must have total and complete control over their actions. We must keep them uneducated in order to keep them intelligent. We must put them through war to give them peace. We must starve them to make them satisfied. And we must lie to them in order to make sure they are told the truth"''
-->--'''Ingsoc''', ''WebAnimation/{{Grej}}''

->''"But no matter how intricate or comprehensive such theories are, the authors can never rest. Unreality cannot withstand the ever-present and unavoidable contact with actual reality, so the lie must always be reinforced and reconstructed. It must be exhausting. Consider what happens when Tim [=LaHaye=] stumbles across a magazine profile of the current secretary-general, Ban Ki-Moon. If he ''really'' believes that this man is supreme ruler of the world and not merely a toothless diplomatic figurehead, then it would be irresponsible ''not'' to read the article and thereby learn as much as possible about the supposedly Most Powerful Man on Earth. But some part of [=LaHaye=] will also realize that such an encounter with reality would be fatal to the beliefs he is struggling to maintain. He knows — ''knows'' — that he cannot allow himself to read that article if he wants to continue believing the things he wants to continue believing. In other words, he knows — or at least some part of him knows — that the things he wants to continue believing are not true."''
-->--'''Fred Clark''', [[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2008/02/26/lb-willful-stup/ Slacktivist]]

->''"So was George Floyd a dangerous killing machine struggling in ways our untrained mortal eyes could not perceive or was he so addled the drugs alone killed him making the force with which he was held down even more unnecessary than would be for a healthy man? Because as always you want two opposing things to be true simultaneously. Well more accurately you want only the convenient parts of both to be accepted (truth being immaterial to your purposes) and for everyone to get over everything inconvenient that would also mean along with all indisputable factual context while you continue your own illegitimate grievances and feign victimhood ad nauseam."''
-->--'''Passerby''', [[https://fstdt.com/SWVWKNKYW2NFD#82615 Fundies Say the Darndest Things]]

->''"This means I need to keep in mind two seemingly contradictory ideas when I rely on the work of translators: 1) Cut them some slack, because translation is a very difficult, often thankless job, and 2) Cut them no slack at all because I am wholly reliant on their work and thus wholly vulnerable to their errors and misdirections."''
-->--'''Fred Clark''', [[https://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2021/07/21/for-you-were-redacted-in-egypt-part-4-a-slight-tangent/ Slacktivist]]

->''"The followers must feel humiliated by the ostentatious wealth and force of their enemies. When I was a boy I was taught to think of Englishmen as the five-meal people. They ate more frequently than the poor but sober Italians. Jews are rich and help each other through a secret web of mutual assistance. However, the followers must be convinced that they can overwhelm the enemies. Thus, by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak. Fascist governments are condemned to lose wars because they are constitutionally incapable of objectively evaluating the force of the enemy."''
-->-- '''Creator/UmbertoEco''', ''Ur-Fascism''

->''We developed a kind of voluntary schizophrenia in [[UsefulNotes/JosefStalin those days]]. You separate your soul into two independent parts. You can adapt yourself to the practice of living in one part of your soul while you keep the truth in the other part. Both halves of the soul can be in absolute contradiction to each other, each remaining absolutely logical within itself... The truth part you shared with your family and a very few close friends.''
-->-- Josef Gitelson

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