You know, that’s what’s wrong with us on the public level. We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for anot… - John Brunner

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that’s better.

Opening the door to the visiting doctor, all set to apologize for the flour on her hands—she had been baking—Mrs. Byrne sniffed. Smoke! And if she could smell it with her heavy head cold, it must be a tremendous fire!
”We ought to call the brigade!” she exclaimed. “Is it a hayrick?”
”The brigade would have a long way to go,” the doctor told her curtly. “It’s from America. The wind’s blowing that way.”

LOGIC The principle governing human intellection. Its nature may be deduced from examining the following propositions, both of which are held by human beings to be true and often by the same people: “I can’t so you musn’t,” and “I can but you musn’t.”

It’s okay to be a responsible member of society if only you know what you’re going to be held responsible for.