Each man too is a tyrant in tendency, because he would impose his idea on others; and their trick is their natural defence. Jesuswould absorb the race; but Tom Paine or the coarsest blasphemer helps humanity by resisting this exuberance of power.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI--this thought which is called I--is the mould into which the world is poured like melted wax.
Ralph Waldo Emerson