The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

Boundaries have no existence save on charts or in small minds. Nature does not draw lines.

All of the important things ... will turn out to be universally shared. It's why there will be no true aliens.

An optimist is somebody who thinks our various political and social systems, schools and churches, support groups and Boy Scout troops, jury trials and congressional committees, are on the up-and-up. That they are intended for the benefit of the members. The reality is that they are designed to keep everyone in line.

The uplifters are forever running around telling blockheads they would do better if they would believe in themselves. But they already do. That is why they are blockheads.

It can provide horrendous weapons to idiots.