Anybody, at any time, may equally find himself victim or executioner.
I do not admire 'the people,' as such. No one really does. Their folk wisdom is usually false, their instincts predatory. Even their sense of survival - so highly developed in the individual - goes berserk in the mass. A crowd is a fool.
Americans worship the Constitution but do not observe it.
Never offend an enemy in a small way.
Christianity is such a silly religion.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.