“Ignorance can’t be pardoned. Only cured.”

“What can’t be cured must be endured.”

“Ignorance is a cure for nothing.”

“There’s nothing wrong with most men’s egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can’t cure.”

“A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.”

“The law cannot forgive, for the law has not been wronged, only broken; only persons can be wronged. The law can pardon, but it can only pardon what it has the power to punish.”

“Life,” said Marvin dolefully, “loathe it or ignore it, you can’t like it.”

“Only he who has the power to punish can pardon.”

“There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.”

“There is only one reason why men become addicted to drugs — they are weak men. Only strong men are cured, and they cure themselves.”