“Consider that we shouldn’t call our brother a fool, since we don’t know ourselves what we are.”

“We often fool ourselves that we are concentrating because we fix our attention on wavering objects”

“We feel we have been used in the worst fashion by the administration of this country. … And we cannot consider ourselves America's best men when we are ashamed of and hated what we were called on to do in Southeast Asia.”

“We shall never learn to feel and respect our real calling and destiny, unless we have taught ourselves to consider every thing as moonshine, compared with the education of the heart.”

“When we consider carefully what many of our so-called humanists stand for, we find that they are not humanists but humanitarians.”

“We know all their gods; they ignore ours. What they call our sins are our gods, and what they call their gods, we name otherwise.”

“Big brothers are the ones who are supposed to pull their punches. Little sisters—well, we should be able
to hit as hard as we like, shouldn’t we?”

“But let no person say what they would or would not do, since we are not judges for ourselves until circumstances call us to act.”

“Our theories stand. We both see clearly; we know what’s right. Even if it’s not always possible to act on it, don’t you think it matters to be able to call things by their true names?”

“We are constantly haunted by the qualities of self-interest and that is why we struggle to refrain ourselves from making fools of our behaviours.”