"Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed."
"The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men."
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Source: The Will to Power. Book by Friedrich Nietzsche, edited by Peter Gast and Elisabeth Nietzsche, Sec. 872 (Notebook W I 1. Spring 1884, KGW VII, 2.97-8, KSA 11.101-2), 1888.
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