In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

The fact is that people are good, Give people affection and security, and they will give affection and be secure in their feelings and their behavior.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.

There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.

It is perfectly possible to live a very moral life without a belief in God, and I think it’s perfectly possible to live a life peppered with ill-doing and believe in God.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

People who eat with their mouth open should be punched in the face.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you’ll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

There is no such things as ‚best‘ in the world of individuals.

I didn’t do anything at the Queen, whom I admire.

The human being is a strange mixture of blind instinct, on one hand, and conscience, on the other.

The big question about how people behave is whether they’ve got an Inner Scorecard or an Outer Scorecard. It helps if you can be satisfied with an Inner Scorecard.

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Imaginary evils soon become real one by indulging our reflections on them.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

Everyone knows nowadays that people ‚have complexes‘. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen.

If you’re treated a certain way you become a certain kind of person. If certain things are described to you as being real they’re real for you whether they’re real or not.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

Madness is rare in individuals – but in groups, parties, nations, and ages it is the rule.

Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.

I act on impulse and I go with my instincts.

There’s some jerks. There’s some big egos. There are a few that think they’re one of the Founding Fathers… in both parties.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

Whatever we expect with confidence becomes our own self-fulfilling prophecy.

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

People love conspiracy theories.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

When I was a kid, I never did funny things to get attention. I was never a funny person. I was never, like, ‚Oh, wow. I could say this some day on stage.‘

A creep is someone who claims he’s one thing but he’s actually another.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn’t allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn’t do anything with my classmates.

Because of its phantom nature, and despite elaborate defense mechanisms, the ego is very vulnerable and insecure, and it sees itself as constantly under threat. This, by the way, is the case even if the ego is outwardly very confident.

I’m interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.