It’s pretty human to smash the guy or the thing which tries to tell us something we don’t want to hear. - Mark Clifton

Somehow I got the impression that instead of looking into a crystal ball, they would be more inclined to look out of one.

That kind of therapy, the use of force to make a man give up his convictions, has been tried since the dawn of history. I think we should have learned by now that it won’t work.

In either event he could only adhere to the letter of the law, but then for every yea in the law there was a nay, and it always boiled down to simple expediency. Like a psychiatric diagnosis, it could always be juggled around to fit anything you chose.