Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)
Science ... has won for us a great liberty in the physical world, a liberty from superstitious fear and from disease, a freedom to use nature as a familiar servant; but it has not freed us from ourselves.
—Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)
There is no such thing as a value-free concept of deviance; to say homosexuals are deviant because they are a statistical minority is, in practice, to stigmatize them. Nuns are rarely classed as deviants for the same reason, although if they obey their vows they clearly differ very significantly from the great majority of people.
—Dennis Altman (b. 1943)