There is no tyranny so hateful as a vulgar and anonymous tyranny. It is all-permeating, all-thwarting; it blasts every budding novelty and sprig of genius with its omnipresent and fierce stupidity. Such a headless people has the mind of a worm and the claws of a dragon.
George SantayanaNothing you can lose by dying is half as precious as the readiness to die, which is man's charter of nobility.
George Santayana