“I gladly admit that we [the cultured] number among us men and women whose modesty, courtesy, fair-mindedness, patience in disputation and readiness to see an antagonist’s point of view, are wholly admirable. I am fortunate to have known them. But we must also admit that we show as high a percentage as any group whatever of bullies, paranoiacs, and poltroons, of backbiters, exhibitionists, mopes, milksops, and world-without-end bores. The loutishness that turns every argument into a quarrel is really no rarer among us than among the sub-literate; the restless inferiority complex (‘stern to inflict’ but not ‘stubborn to endure’) which bleeds at a touch but scratches like a wildcat is almost as common among us as among schoolgirls” (C.S. Lewis, The World’s Last Night, pp. 33-34).
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