Incommensurables cannot be compared.

We can't cure a shortage by increasing the supply.

The essence of dramatic tragedy is not unhappiness. It resides in the solemnity of the remorseless working of things.

In a finite world this means that the per capita share of the world's goods must steadily decrease.

No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.