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I wasn’t impressed. As it says in Bible, God fights on side of heaviest artillery.
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws—always for other fellow.
Is mixed-up place another way; they care about skin color—by making point of how they don’t care. First trip I was always too light or too dark, and somehow blamed either way, or was always being expected to take stand on things I have no opinions on.
“Because it wasn’t in the news. A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers . . . and its greatest strength is a ‘free press’ when ‘free’ is defined as ‘responsible’ and the managers define what is ‘irresponsible.’
There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.”
“You’ll get used to it. I’m a royalist because I’m a democrat. I shan’t let your reluctance thwart the idea any more than you let stealing stop you.”
“Of course. A king is the people’s only protection against tyranny . . . especially against the worst of all tyrants, themselves.
Nobody knew Wyoh’s virtues better than I . . . but she oscillated between fierceness and too-human compassion—and I had learned already that a “head of state,” even an acting one, must have neither.
