Which passage from Anthem, Chapter 2, Part 2, is ironic because it reveals how the Council tries to deceive its people into distrusting their own feelings?
And a word steals into our mind, as we look upon our brothers, and that word is fear.
Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to speak.
There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and in the air of the streets.
It is forbidden, not to be happy... For, as it has been explained to us, men are free and the earth belongs to them... and so all men must be happy.