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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.

There’s so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.

Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

Where id was, there ego shall be.

Authority poisons everybody who takes authority on himself.

Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your attitude of mind, and your soul is revealed by your actions.

Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.