We live in an age of prejudice, dissimulation and paradox, wherein, like dry leaves caught in a whirlpool, some of us are tossed helpless . . . ever struggling between our honest convictions and fear of that cruelest of tyrants -- PUBLIC OPINION.
Source: A Paradoxical World,'' in Lucifer, Feb 1889.
-- Helena Petrova Blavatsky, (Aug 12 1831-1891), Russian author, translator, theosophist; She was co-founder of the Theosophical Society to promote Theosophy, a pantheistic philosophical-religious system.