There are degrees of justice, Elijah. When the lesser is incompatible with the greater, the lesser must give way. - Isaac Asimov

We speak of time and mind, which do not easily yield to categories. We separate past and future and find that time is an amalgam of both. We separate good and evil and find that mind is an amalgam of both. To understand, we must grasp the whole.

Groups, like individuals, will rise to strange heights in answer to a challenge, and vegetate in the absence of a challenge.

The population was kept down by rigid birth control and by the euthanasia of people over sixty.