"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate." (Opinia publica este un tiran slab comparat cu opinia privata proprie. Ceea ce un om gandeste despre sine insusi, aceea e ceea ce ii va determina sau, mai bine zis, ii va indica soarta.)
Henry David Thoreau