The novel is the highest example of subtle inter-relatedness that man has discovered.
"We live in a world that is interconnected and interdependent, and our stories are part of that larger narrative."
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
The poet’s task is to make the invisible visible.
The stranger is an element of the group itself, not unlike the poor and sundry 'inner enemies'—an element whose membership within the group involves both being outside it and confronting it.
The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions.
"War is just a series of moments when you don't die, strung together by fear and luck."