dubitable

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them. Thus it had come about that she had read far more fiction, and far more poetry, those two sanctuaries of the lonely, than most of her kind.

It may be better for humanity that we should communicate more and more. But I am a heretic, I think our ancestors' isolation was like the greater space they enjoyed: it can only be envied. The world is only too literally too much with us now.

His statement to himself should have been, 'I possess this now, therefore I am happy', instead of what it so Victorianly was:`I cannot possess this for ever, and therefore am sad.'

'But you're an Efrafan. Do you think like that too?' 'I'm a doe,' said Hyzenthlay.

Many human beings say that they enjoy the winter, but what they really enjoy is feeling proof against it. For them there is no winter food problem. They have fires and warm clothes. The winter cannot hurt them and therefore increases their sense of cleverness and security.

[Computers] make fine tools for the centralization of power, if that's what those who buy them want to do with them. They are handy greed-extenders.

Where money is the measure of everything, many completely futile and superfluous crafts must be practiced just to support over-indulgence and wanton luxury.

Howl, rich men, for the miseries that are (just now) coming upon you, the rust of your silver is rising up in judgment against you, burning your flesh like fire