„It’s such a waste to be subtle and vicious with people who don’t even know that you’re being subtle and vicious“

— Ayn Rand

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„In most cases, people, even the most vicious, are much more naive and simple-minded than we assume them to be. And this is true of ourselves too.“
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
„I had gone through game, after game, after game, first being a professor at Harvard, then being a psychedelic spokesman, and still people were constantly looking into my eyes, like "Do you know?" Just that subtle little look, and I was constantly looking into their eyes "Do you know?"“
— Ram Dass
„It is entirely legitimate for the American people to be deeply concerned when you’ve got a bunch of violent, vicious zealots who behead people or randomly shoot a bunch of folks in a deli in Paris.“
— Barack Obama
„The subtle and deadly change of heart that might occur in you would be involved with the realization that a civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.“
— James Baldwin
„I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.“
— Sylvia Plath