"The mythology of your culture hums in your ears so constantly that no one pays the slightest bit of attention to it. Of course man is conquering space and the atom and the deserts and the oceans and the elements. According to your mythology, this is what he was BORN to do."
"The obvious can sometimes be illuminating when perceived in an unhabitual way."
"[N]ow we have a clearer idea what this story is all about: The world was made for man, and man was made to rule it."
"[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion."
"The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'."
"If you alone found out what the lie was, then you're probably right—it would make no great difference. But if you ALL found out what the lie was, it might conceivably make a very great difference indeed."