It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

Enormous problems arise when human mistakes are made on the grand scale available to a superhero... Heroes are painful, superheroes are a catastrophe. The mistakes of superheroes involve too many of us in disaster.

Sympathy for the enemy -- a weakness of police and armies alike. Most perilous are the unconscious sympathies directing you to preserve your enemy intact because the enemy is your justification for existence.