We have to go. I'm almost happy here.
Humanity does not ask us to be happy. It merely asks us to be brilliant on its behalf.
If you try and lose then it isn't your fault. But if you don't try and we lose, then it's all your fault.
Being here alone with nothing to do, I've been thinking about myself too. Trying to understang why I hate myself so badly.
Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
I have hope for you, if only because you're the only one left to hope for.
Is it some law of human nature that you inevitably become whatever your first commander was?
What else should you be? Human beings didn't evolve brains in order to lie around on lakes. Killing's the first thing we learned. And a good thing we did, or we'd be dead, and the tigers would own the earth.
You're a monster. Thanks. Does this mean I get a raise? No, just a medal. The budget isn't inexhaustable.
Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.
Another oral exam, huh?' Peter said. 'Shut up, Peter,' said Valentine. 'You should relax and enjoy it,' said Peter. 'It could be worse.' 'I don't know how.' 'It could be an anal exam.
Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.
With false names, on the right nets, they could be anybody. Old men, middle-aged women, anybody, as long as they were careful about the way they wrote. All that anyone would see were the words, their ideas. Every citizen started equal, on the nets.
Valentine went back to class without answering. That night Demosthenes published a scathing denunciation of the population limitation laws. People should be allowed to have as many children as they like, and the surplus population should be sent to o...
Perhaps it’s impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be. She thought of that, worried about it for a few days, and then wrote a column using that as a premise, to show that politicians who toadied to the Russians in orde...
I've lived too long with pain. I won't know who I am without it.
The have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power.
In my experience, influence is power.
