“The demands that good people make are upon themselves;Those that bad people make are upon others.”

“The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.”

“I reeled with giddiness - flames passed before my eyes.I remembered those precipices that drew one towards them with irresistible power - wells that have had to be filled up because of persons throwing themselves into them - trees that have had to be cut down because of people hanging themselves upon them - the contagion of suicide and theft and murder, which at various times has taken possession of people's minds, by means well understood; that strange inducement, which makes people kill themselves because others kill themselves. My hair rose upon my head with horror!("The Invisible Eye")”

“Polyamorous people are wary of having others' values inflicted upon themselves, and so tend to stay very far away from making such pronouncements, to the point that they will actively ignore predatory behavior that is affecting their own "community.”

“Religion makes good people better and bad people worse.”

“People will not change their minds but they will make new decisions based upon new information.”