The quickest way to kill the human spirit is to ask someone to do mediocre work.
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.
That time and those people are upon you!
The conservatives want to rule man's consciousness; the liberals, his body.
She did not know what it was about him that had always made her want to see him broken.
If the rest of them can survive only by destroying us, then why should we wish them to survive? . . . Nothing can make it moral to destroy the best. One can't be punished for being good. One can't be penalized for ability.