No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties. - Damon Knight

We humanitarians, as our name suggests, believe that man has an ethical duty to man. We believe that the value of any system is measured by the consideration given to all human beings, not just to a favored class: and by that standard, our present system is a miserable failure.

"Don't lose your temper," said Ruell evenly. "It's your worst fault, except for ignorance."

Eagles had made a realist of him. He believed in facts, and in altering your viewpoint to fit them, no matter what they were. That was the way you survived and stayed sane; it was hard, it meant sacrifices—he had already lost many things that he valued deeply—but it was the only way.