The rearing of children is considered too important to be left to the individual and should be the responsibility of the state.

When you realize there is something you don't understand, then you're generally on the right path to understanding all kinds of things.

It was all too easy to make things up, it was like skating on thin ice, it was like doing dainty pirouettes on a brittle crust over water thousands of fathoms deep.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.

I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.