A story with no moral isn't worth writing; a story with no plot isn't worth reading. And if people get your point before they get your story, you are… - Marion Zimmer Bradley

He said harshly, “You are suggesting that we abandon the effort—and relapse into barbarism?”…
“I hope not, captain. It is man’s mind that makes him a barbarian, not his technology. We may have to do without top-level technology, at least for a few generations, but that doesn’t mean we can’t establish a good world here for ourselves and our children, a civilized world. There have been civilizations which have existed for centuries almost without technology. The illusion that man’s culture is only the history of his techno structures is propaganda from the engineers, sir. It has no basis in sociology—or in philosophy.”

"Only men laugh, only men dance, only men weep" - Saying on Darkover, quoted by Lew Alton

Good Lord, what's that unholy racket!"
"I forgot you weren't a Scot, darling, don't you like the bagpipes?