A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.

The bugs are not like us. The Pseudo-Arachnids aren’t even like spiders. They are arthropods who happen to look like a madman’s conception of a giant intelligent spider, but their organization, psychological and economic, is more like that of ants or termites; they are communal entities, the ultimate dictatorship of the hive.

No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.

It seems to me that any law that is not enforced and can't be enforced weakens all other laws.

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.

The marks won't listen if it's free.

Morals - all correct moral laws - derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.