“It’s amazing how desperately we cling to our beliefs…”

“…As history shows, the fastest way to reduce otherwise decent people to a state of savagery is by tampering with their belief system.

The word for someone who does so is heretic, and historically the punishments reserved for him are more brutal than for any other class of offender.

The point is that by the time people come to me, their beliefs are securely in place. No one approaches me and asks to have their hard-won beliefs demolished. They come to build upon what they already have and to continue along the course they’ve already begun.

Demolition, though, is exactly what they need. If, that is, they want to wake up.” – Jed McKenna