The number of those who undergo the fatigue of judging for themselves is very small indeed. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Critic, 1799

The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb. This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them. – Albert Einstein, letter to Sigmund Freud, 1932 July 30th

Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance. – Mark Twain, 1907, letter to Harriet E. Whitmore