Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. Book V

No one is useless in this world ... who lightens the burden of it for any one else. Our Mutual Friend

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will. As they say in the United States: "to be different is to be indecent." The mass crushes beneath it everything that is different, everything that is excellent, individual, qualified and select. Anybody who is not like everybody, who does not think like everybody, runs the risk of being eliminated. And it is clear, of course, that this "everybody" is not "everybody." "Everybody" was normally the complex unity of the mass and the divergent, specialised minorities. Nowadays, "everybody" is the mass alone. the Revolt of the Masses

The times are past when only the powerful and the prominent were human beings—and the others were bond servants and slaves. This is due to Christianity. Works of Love