Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.

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

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

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

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.