But I fear that I also underestimate the stupidity of the rest of mankind. Are we absolutely sure that we ought to win this war?

Everyone dies. Everyone leaves. What matters is the things you build together before they go. What matters is the part of them that continues in you when they're gone.

When there aren't any smart decisions, I suppose you just have to pick the stupid decision you like best.

Sometimes happiness consists of finding the right balance of misery.

So the whole war is because we can't talk to each other.

Before we are citizens, we are children, and it is as children that we come to understand freedom and authority, liberty and duty.

What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.