It'll be your own torture," he said, serious. "I hope to God it'll torture you to madness.
Blessed tree and blessed birds, that were to be neither saved nor damned.
I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.
The important thing is moral choice. Evil has to exist along with good, in order that moral choice may operate. Life is sustained by the grinding opposition of moral entities.
When the State withers, humanity flowers.
But don't think that it's a system or a culture or a state or a person that does the letting down. It's our expectations that let us down. It begins in the warmth of the womb and the discovery that it's cold outside. But it's not the cold's fault that it's cold.