“He was not psychotic enough to set himself up as a chosen arbiter of mores and laws.”
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 122.
Variant: I want us to be... what is your word? Friends."
"Psychotic rapists don't have friends."
"I was unaware you were a psychotic rapists or I would not have offered."
(Mac & V'lane)
Source: Bloodfever
“He was not psychotic enough to set himself up as a chosen arbiter of mores and laws.”
Source: They'd Rather Be Right (1954), p. 122.
“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.”
That was indeed agreat benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind.
Seneca is quoting Hecato.
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter VI: On precepts and exemplars
De Abaitua interview (1998)
“I’m neither your friend nor your frenemy, unless you have what I want.”
Source: Every Fifteen Minutes
“Would you be friends with me if I didn't have an arsehole?”
"RT Podcast: Ep. 237" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzwsd1OUrTs. youtube.com. October 2, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2022.
Source: Summer of Love (1994), Chapter 10 “Dedicated to the One I Love” (p. 230)
James Marsters on Life After Buffy, on the rape scene in Buffy the Vampire Slayer "Seeing Red"