We'll do what life always does defy expectations.

Stupid people do stupid things, but people who are smart enough can do something really stupid.

There's no drug that'll make a stupid man smart.

When does loyalty become martyrdom?

Some pious men may find this truth unorthodox and bitter: But Nature, Chance, and Time ensure survival of the fitter!

Average people seldom talked about anything interesting and often hurt each other savagely.

These movies belonged to the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries that period of great, unsustainable, and hedonistic prosperity, driven by the burning of Earth's reserves of perishable oil, which culminated in the False Tribulation, and the wars, and the plagues, and the painful dwindling of inflated populations to more reasonable numbers.