To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he's doing is good... Ideology - that is what gives devildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others' eyes, so that he won't hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.

Morality is always higher than law and we cannot forget this ever.

Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.

You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale.

If someone asked you, why not help him out?

Even the most broad-minded of us can embrace only that part of truth into which our own snout has blundered.

It's quite enough to show a well-beaten dog the whip.