A society that put more emphasis on birth than ability was likely to breed ability out of its ruling class. — Damon Knight

He was going to die. His mind flinched back in horror from that, but it was still there, grinning, implacable. His body would rot under the ground, while delicious things were still happening in the sunlight.

“Don’t lose your temper,” said Ruell evenly. “It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.”

No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.