The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.
The government don't want to talk about the consequences of the choices they make. They pretend there aren't any consequences.
Who is so deaf or so blind as is he that willfully will neither hear nor see?
Assimilation is the way you excuse yourself. It absolutely never worked at all. You may not think you are noticeable. But they know who you are. They know you're a degenerate, and they've never forgotten that.
I think little of people who will deny their history because it doesn't present the picture they would like.
He who is reluctant to recognize me opposes me.
Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.
He behaved like an ostrich and put his head in the sand, thereby exposing his thinking parts.
When your head is firmly in the sand, another part of your anatomy is fully exposed.
Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.
Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!
America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.
People don't really want to know what happens. They ask you for just a second, but then they don't want to know.
People tell you who they are. There are big neon signs going off. 'Pay attention! This is who I am.' And most of us put out hands a little bit over our eyes. We don't see that.
Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.
Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.
Politicians: Some are ignorant; some are not ignorant, but those who are ignorant don't want to know. The psychologists call it denial.
There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.
Obviously, some people are thick, and they're not gonna see what they don't want to see.
I'm very good at denial.
But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer.
While silence can in some circumstances bespeak noble self-control, it can also signify suppression, oblivion or cowardice.
None so blind as those who will not see.
You know the problem, we don't want to believe what we know.
Never face facts; if you do you'll never get up in the morning.
