I can only say that, while my own opinions as to ethics do not satisfy me, other people's satisfy me still less.

In a democracy it is necessary that people should learn to endure having their sentiments outraged ...

Many people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious.

People seem good while they are oppressed, but they only wish to become oppressors in their turn: life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.