He wondered, as he often had during his life, at people’s ability to think so intricately and to still be wrong. - Algis Budrys

That was the way things worked out: you got a certain fair share of good breaks from life, and you had no right to expect things your way every time.

Sentiment was the easy thing. But logic reminded a man that some people insisted on living their neighbor’s lives, that some people were offensive.
There were people with moral codes they clung to and lived by, people who worshiped in what they held to be the only orthodox way, people who clung to some idea—some rock on which their lives rested. Well and good. But if they tried to inflict these reforms on their neighbors, patience could only go so far, and the tolerance of fanaticism lasts just so long.

The universe has resources of death which we have barely begun to pick at.