Being afraid something is true is accepting the possibility. Accepting the possibility is the first step to believing. At least you are smart enough to question. Think of how easy it is to believe, for people who don't question, who don't even know how to question. For most people, it's not the truth that is important, it's the cause. Rahl is intelligent; he has given them a cause.

~ Terry Goodkind

Terry Goodkind 1994 Belief Causes Doubt Fear Truth Wizard S First Rule Zedd

Indeed, Dr Haxhausen fought to preserve his freedom with very good reason, for he required a great deal of it—freedom, not reason—to pursue his plans for the future.

~ Thomas Ligotti

Thomas Ligotti 1994 Fight For Freedom Freedom Mad Night Of Atonement Reason Unreasonable

To take a side against Rushdie, or to be neutral and evasive about him in the name of some vaguely sensitive ecumenical conscience, is to stand against those who try to incubate a Reformation in the Muslim world.

~ Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens 1994 Islam Reformation Religion Salman Rushdie

Many of us persons of the tinted persuasion care about human rights and artistic freedom too.

~ Salman Rushdie

Salman Rushdie 1994 Cultural Relativism Freedom Of Expression Human Rights Racism