“We're fine together, just like this: Our silence protects us from ourselves”
“Just the two of us. We're in it together. The pleasure will be ours alone. For the rest of our lives.”
“Most of us spend our lives protecting ourselves from losses that have already happened.”
“The truth is that civilization does not protect us from wild animals. It attempts, however imperfectly, to protect us from ourselves.”
“Everything - our houses, our clothes, our hairstyles - is meant to help us forget ourselves and to protect us from vanity, greed and envy, which are just forms of selfishness. If we have little, and want for little, and we are all equal, we envy no one.”
“I don't believe in a government that protects us from ourselves.”