I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.

Permanence was always an illusion, and love was just the disguise that lovers wore to hide the death of their union from each other for a while.

Wouldn't it have been better to change humanity so it no longer desired to destroy itself?

There's nothing between them anymore. I could see it fall, the last tie of love or even of concern. If he died tonight, she would be content. to Luet this seem…

The submission of free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.

'Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by…

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.