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It's good or evil, it's black and white, it's either you're with us or you're against us....A defining attribute of witch-hunting is the way the momentum builds. It's very hard to stop beyond a certain point-- because beyond a certain point, if you say "Stop!" they'll call you a witch.
--John Putnam Demos, in an interview about his book The Enemy Within: 2,000 Years of Witch-hunting in the Western World
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