Chrysalids: "They could never have succeeded. If they had not brought down Tribulation which all but destroyed them; then they would have bred with the carelessness of animals until they had reduced themselves to poverty and misery, and ultimately to starvation and barbarism. One way or another they were foredoomed because they were an inadequate species." "When their conditions were primitives they could get along all right, as the animals can; but the more complex …
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…wing will make him fly an ordinary pitch, who else would soar above the view of men and keep us all in servile fearfulness. "Et tu, Brute?" To Kill a Mocking Bird: "Mockingbirds don't do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. That don't eat up people's gardens, don't nest in corncribs, they don't do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That's why it's a sin to kill a mockingbird."