For individuals to feel justified in doing horrible things to other people, they must feel an unwavering certainty in their own righteousness, in the… - Mark Manson

Evil people never believe that they are evil; rather, they believe that everyone else is evil.

There is such pressure in the West to be likable that people often reconfigure their entire personality depending on the person they’re dealing with.

But the problem with entitlement is that it makes people need to feel good about themselves all the time, even at the expense of those around them. And because entitled people always need to feel good about themselves, they end up spending most of their time thinking about themselves. After all, it takes a lot of energy and work to convince yourself that your shit doesn’t stink, especially when you’ve actually been living in a toilet.

People hold on to arbitrary certainties and try to enforce them on others, often violently, in the name of some made-up righteous cause.