A man’s behaviour in society is chock-full of a never-ending series of dominance-subservience gestures; while the most amusing thing about that is that he usually doesn’t recognize them for what they are while he performs them.

You should never over-react, as it shall be noticed; nor should you under-react, as you shall be categorized. Only balance is permissible, and that varies for the occasion.

When it comes down to displays of emotion the chimpanzee is no match for the rubber-faced human being, even if they are kissing cousins.

People thrive in society through securing agreement, which is usually the sort of thing that makes them so disagreeable.

If those who, in their lack of drive and moral weakness, make you queasy, then at least you have taste enough to know why; although that alone never makes you better than they are, even if you don’t quite know why that is.

In reality, your time is your own to do with as you wish, where the main decision is when, not whether, to attempt to use people for what they’re worth.

For the comfort of the whole, the group will always be willing to sacrifice at least one of its members for the sake of conformity within the group, and probably a few more as well.

Your betrayal of your own interests must be very much like a betrayal of yourself; as, in a way, they are really very similar in their consequences: personal destruction.

Is it always right to withhold tacit approval from those people whom you disapprove of? Well it may be right, but what feels so right must be wrong to feel so good as well.

All intelligent primates will respond personally to the authority of their peer group with a winning smile, to say nothing about doing it with a nod and a wink.

Lisping, stuttering people––there’s something queer about them—probably a lack of concentration.