“Few people can resist doing what is universally expected of them. This invisible pressure is more difficult to stand against than individual tyranny.”

“Men in general judge more by the sense of sight than by the sense of touch, because everyone can see but few can test by feeling. Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”

“It seems that the rebels found the chaos of transition more difficult to accept than the tyranny they had known before. They joyfully welcomed back authority-even oppressive authority-for it was less painful for them than uncertainty.”

“Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the general opinion.”

“Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.”

“David thought living in a house was very difficult. It was not the house itself--that was lovely to be in--but the people. What was so difficult about them was that they constantly seemed to expect him to say and do things he would never have though of, and what appeared sensible and natural to him seemed to surprise them...”