“You don't need to watch everyone if everyone believes they're being watched.”
John Twelve Hawks American writer
Fourth Realm Trilogy (2005-2009), The Traveler (2005)
“…and I believed that everyone but those kneeling in front of me saw, and that was the source of my vanity and my cowardice: always I believed everyone was watching me.”
The Judge and Other Snakes.
Broken Vessels (1991)
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“I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Margaret Atwood book Cat's Eye
Variant: Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
Source: Cat's Eye (1988)
“My doctor told me to watch my drinking. Now I drink in front of a mirror.”
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“I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.”
Penn Jillette (1955) American magician
2010s, I don't know, so I'm an atheist libertarian (2011)
Context: Government is force — literally, not figuratively.
I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone. The fact that the majority thinks they have a way to get something good does not give them the right to use force on the minority that don't want to pay for it. If you have to use a gun, I don't believe you really know jack. Democracy without respect for individual rights sucks. It's just ganging up against the weird kid, and I'm always the weird kid.
“Everyone always believes everything nasty of everyone else, and especially if it's a lie.”
Halldór Laxness (1902–1998) Icelandic author
Vegmey Hansdóttir
Heimsljós (World Light) (1940), Book Two: The Palace of the Summerland