“How to defend yourself against a banana”

“Bravery is to defend yourself from another, and the humanity is to defend the other from yourself.”

“Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling 'banana', but didn't know how you stopped.”

“Just because he has black fingernails doesn't mean he's a monster-that's how you've defended yourself for years.”

“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”

“Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the banana. There is no banana. I want another banana.”

“Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we’re always licked by something from the inside. There’s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.”

“There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding.”

“How has the church in every age, when in authority, defended itself? Always by a statute against blasphemy, against argument, against free speech. And there never was such a statute that did not stain the book that it was in and that did not certify to the savagery of the men who passed it.”

“Electrical banana
Is gonna be a sudden craze
Electrical banana
Is bound to be the very next phase…”