[On the newspapers of the Craw Press:] Their politics are an opiate to prevent folk thinking. - John Buchan

[T]here was never an army that did not accuse its enemies of barbarity.

It was foreordained that I should go alone to Umvelos', and in the promptings of my own infallible heart I believed I saw the workings of Omnipotence. Such is our moral arrogance, and yet without such a belief I think that mankind would have ever been content to bide sluggishly at home.

Any large-scale organization must lose some of the merits of its rudimentary beginnings. Quantity will have a coarsening effect on quality.