We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.
Dictatorship is a constant lecture instructing you that your feelings, your thoughts and desires are of no account, that you are a nobody and must live as you are told by other people who desire and think for you
As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.
Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with
There are millions of people who think that having heard about something is the same as knowing it, and their notion of culture is a mixture of elegant lifestyle and big names.
People will either like you for your money or they'll resent you for having it.. So you're stuck with a small group who are as rich as you are, and that doesn't give you much choice.
Like all wage-slaves,he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with.
To be jealous of a woman one doesn't love is the most ridiculous form of vanity, but Hardwick, surrounded by people whose livelihood depended on him, had no idea that he could be ridiculous.