Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.

You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection

Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?

If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.

If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.

I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)