Gradually there broke on him the understanding that this was a contest that he perpetuated by the very act of… — Gordon R. Dickson

In a climate of confusion, one of the surest ways of confounding the enemy is to tell him the plain truth.

With the situation fully and correctly understood, it becomes entirely reasonable that the very small fraction of a second preceding a violent death could be a trigger to speculative thought.

Actually, each generation likes to think of itself as at the pivot point in history, that in its time the great decision is made which puts man either on the true road or the false. But things aren’t really that serious. Truthfully, the way of mankind is too massive to be kinked, suddenly; it only changes direction in a long and gradual bend over many generations.