Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions.
Mark TwainThe most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might.
Mark TwainTo go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence.
Mark Twain