Edmund Cooper

Thus, ultimately, there never could be an absolute end; just as there never could have been an absolute beginning. There could only be a continuous unfolding.

For mankind may survive and live without machines, and still be civilised. But without compassion, the human race can only elaborate upon the futile cunning and the barren intelligence of the great apes.

There is no other god but life. Life is the only holy thing. And when that goes that is the death of God.

Perhaps justified violence is better than peace at any price.

It is an inflexible law that all living things must seek to dominate their environment.

Only ideals are dangerous.

But no one can be immune to the laws of chance.

There is only the eternal serial moment of now. It contains the total pattern, the complete history.

For death is only a loss of radiance, and birth is only the beginning of a separate journey.

It is the nature of men to act negatively but to dream and hope positively.

But it may be that there is happiness in the very things we rejected - in work and responsibility. In the rearing of children and in the challenge of permanent love.