“That to expect bad people not to injure others is crazy. It's to ask the impossible. And to let them behave like that to other people but expect them to exempt you is arrogant—the act of a tyrant.”

“Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.”

“Know how to behave with others. Knowing how to understand their needs, wants and expectations is the art of winning people's hearts and minds.”

“Asking a tyrant for justice is just like asking a crazy being for sanity, a crazy person considers himself the only sane being among all people”

“Rule number one of the wizarding business. Never let them see you sweat. People expect us to know things. It can be a big advantage. Don’t screw it up by looking like you’re as confused as everyone else. Bad for the image.”

“He was swimming in a sea of other people’s expectations. Men had drowned in seas like that.”

“Good people are only half as good, and bad people only half as bad, as other people regard them.”

“… the point is, why is there cruelty? Why do people ask other people to do impossible things? why behave this way? why is there mean, when there are better things than mean, love particularly?”

“You can´t just tell people what to do and then expect them to perform well.”

“They’re just ordinary people,” Nancy said. “You can’t expect too much of them.”