Great Throughts Treasury

"To ask for overt renunciation of a cherished doctrine is to expect too much of human nature. Men do not repudiate the doctrines and dogma to which they have sworn their loyalty. Instead they rationalize, revise, and reinterpret them to meet new needs and new circumstances, all the while protesting that their heresy is the purest orthodoxy."

"Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability."