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• One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and petty ones to fear.
  -- Friedrich Nietzshe (1844-1900) "Human, All-too-Human" (1878)...
• idiot, n: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
• Idiot: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
• Idiot, n.: A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.
  -- John Locke, "An Essay Concerning Human Understanding...
• The decent moderation of today will be the least human of things tomorrow.
  At the time of the Spanish Inquisition, the opinion of good sense and of the good medium was certainly that people ought not to burn too large a number of heretic...
• common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.
  .." -- H. P. Lovecraf...
• Only a mediocre person is always at his best. -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)