Apocalypse could not be repealed by the democratic process. — Greg Bear

Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization...

Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.

I sometimes think we deserve to die, we’re all so goddamned stupid.