"Enough of this game, Goku! You're wrong about your son. Gohan may have that power, but it doesn't matter! He doesn't thirst for battle and mayhem! He isn't a fighter like you! Do you want to know what he's thinking? He's not thinking about strength, OR about competition! He's wondering why his father is standing there, letting him die! And so your son may be the most powerful person in the world, but he's also a scared eleven-year-old boy!"
— Piccolo to Goku on projecting his Blood Knight/Challenge Seeker tendencies onto Gohan, Dragon Ball Z
"I'm sorry. Fighting... it makes me happy! And I just thought it would make you happy too!"
— Goku to Gohan, Dragon Ball Z Abridged
"Cree el ladrón que todos son de su condición." (The thief believes everyone is like him.)
— Spanish proverb
"To the selfish, all are selfish."
— Aesop of "The Fox and the Bramble."
"They just take everything that has ever been said about them and blindly try to stick it to other people. They don't think about what the words mean or if they apply, they just know that someone used them and it meant something bad to someone else. And so they think that just using those same words on what they hate will make a convincing argument for normal people to hate them too. Because their twisted narcissism makes them think everyone but themselves are mindless and have programmed responses to trigger words."
— Passerby on incels
, Fundies Say the Darndest Things
, Fundies Say the Darndest Things"Mommy, Woofers is lonely out there in the doghouse! He wants to come in and play!" says attention-starved Billy Tobin, 10.
"That dog doesn't care about being in this house! He just wants to run around," counters mother Janet Tobin, 44, an unhappily married homemaker.
"Will you two be quiet? All that poor dog wants is to be left alone!" says Bob Tobin, 50, world-weary father and unfaithful husband to Janet.
So goes a typical exchange with the Tobins, a dysfunctional Flagstaff family whose members possess an uncanny ability to project all of their various neuroses onto the innocent psyche of Woofers, the family dog.
"That dog doesn't care about being in this house! He just wants to run around," counters mother Janet Tobin, 44, an unhappily married homemaker.
"Will you two be quiet? All that poor dog wants is to be left alone!" says Bob Tobin, 50, world-weary father and unfaithful husband to Janet.
So goes a typical exchange with the Tobins, a dysfunctional Flagstaff family whose members possess an uncanny ability to project all of their various neuroses onto the innocent psyche of Woofers, the family dog.
"There’s a lot of projection among our elites. Perhaps they have to imagine the people they prey on as having their own worst qualities, so currently we hear a lot about scroungers and parasites and frauds — as a class of yacht-owning, showjumping, off-piste-skiing, incestuous monsters project the shame it feels at its own greed onto a population whose idea of decadence is probably bath bombs."
"What were you trying to prove? That deep down, everyone's just as ugly as you? You're alone!"
— Batman to The Joker, The Dark Knight
[She] repeated to me a conversation which she had overheard taking place between you and the doctor, and that conversation, you see, was all wrong. It was psychologically most unlikely. If you and the doctor had planned together to kill Mrs Oldfield, you are both of you far too intelligent and level-headed to hold such a conversation in a room with an open door, easily overheard by someone on the stairs or someone in the kitchen. Moreover, the words attributed to you did not fit in at all with your mental make-up. They were the words of a much older woman and of one of a quite different type. They were words such as would be imagined by Nurse Harrison as being used by herself in like circumstances.
"The fact that you think I am frustrated or broken says more about you than about me."
"Often when we guess at others' motives, we reveal only our own."
—Mara Sov, Destiny
"Oh, you are a man of God, sir," cried Caderousse; "for no one knew that Edmond had given you this diamond, and you might have kept it."
"Which," said the abbé to himself, "you would have done."
"Which," said the abbé to himself, "you would have done."
Jonathan: What's the matter with you, Aulani? I mean, why do you think he's been taking care of you all these years? And I'm not just talking about the money. I'm talking about running errands for you, fixing things around this place.
Aulani: He feels sorry for me.
Jonathan: Oh no he doesn't. He doesn't have to. You're too busy feeling sorry for yourself.
— Highway to Heaven, "Aloha"
"Monarch, you use the name of a King, but what do you rule over, the dead?! The Federation fought for peace in this war, and you denied them that! The people of Cascadia! Do you know what you've taken from them?! Their homes! And for what, to secede from the world?! What, you think you can fight this war again in fifty years' time?! Do you really think history will see it your way?! You don't even care why you're here!"
