His clothes, he knew, were in almost ostentatious good taste—they screamed restraint and expensive lowness of… — William Tenn

“Size, power, numbers—since the beginning of time, those three have been trying to correlate with right and wrong. So far, they haven’t succeeded.”

Nodding, the Ambassador murmured, “Very true. But, on the other hand, they do exceedingly well with life and death.”

Laws produce lawbreakers, Bernie, like hens produce eggs. Civilization has nothing to do with it.

That’s the big gimmick in this business—dressing it up so they can’t tell it’s the same thing they’ve been seeing since they got their first universal vaccination. If you dress it up enough, the sticks will always go nuts over it. Maybe the critics will make cracks, sure, but who reads the critics?