The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
Robert A. HeinleinEnglish is the largest of human tongues, with several times the vocabulary of the second largest language -- this alone made it inevitable that English would eventually become, as it did, the lingua franca of this planet, for it is thereby the richest and most flexible -- despite its barbaric accretions . . . or, I should say, because of its barbaric accretions. English swallows up anything that comes its way, makes English out of it.
Robert A. HeinleinThe average bloke . . . hates and fears all freedom, not only for others but for himself, and stamps it out wherever possible.
Robert A. Heinlein