Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.

I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.

I have to win this now, and for all time, or I’ll fight it every day and it will get worse and worse.

Personal humiliation was painful. Humiliation of one's family was much worse. Humiliation of one's social status was agony to bear. But humiliation of one's nation was the most excruciating of human miseries.

The most evil creatures dont desire the destruction of everythingthey only desire to exploit it for themselves.

Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.