Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.