People ask you for criticism, but they only want praise.

The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

You think the only people who are people, are the people who look and think like you.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

Men whose only concern is other people's opinion of them are like actors who put on a poor performance to win the applause of people of poor taste; some of them would be capable of good acting in front of a good audience. A decent man plays his part to the best of his ability, regardless of the taste of the gallery.

Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.

We find very few people of good sense, except those who are of our own opinion.

Time after time it was the “nice” people, the ones who compulsively put other’s expectations and needs ahead of their own and who repressed their so-called negative emotions, who showed up with chronic illness in my family practice, or who came under my care at the hospital palliative ward I directed.

When people are intimidated about having their own opinions, oppression is at hand.

Fake people talk about other people being fake. Real people worry about their business, and no one else's.

Closed-minded people don’t want their ideas challenged.

People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.

Whoever debases others is debasing himself.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.