where everybody is guilty, nobody is.

... the space left to freedom is very small.ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.

Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.

There is all the difference in the world between the criminal's avoiding the public eye and the civil disobedience's taking the law into his own hands in open defiance. This distinction between an open violation of the law, performed in public, and a clandestine one is so glaringly obvious that it can be neglected only by prejudice or ill will.

The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse.