The Little Man

(Original source of photo unknown to me, but I swiped it from here.)

The Little Man does not know that he is little, and he
is afraid of knowing it. He covers up his smallness and
narrowness with illusions of strength and greatness, of
others' strength and greatness. He is proud of his great
generals but not proud of himself. He admires thought
which he did not have and not the thought he did have.
He believes in things all the more thoroughly the less he
comprehends them, and does not believe in the correctness
of those ideas which he comprehends most easily.
—Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man! (1948)