If wishes were fishes, we'd all cast nets.

You've heard of animals chewing off a leg to escape a trap? There's an animal kind of trick. A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.

Humans live best when each has his place, when each knows where he belongs in the scheme of things. Destroy the place and destroy the person.

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Highly organized research is guaranteed to produce nothing new.