Superorganism Night Quotes

#1. Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?

Damon Knight

#2. Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?

George Eliot

#3. She felt free now. Free and empty. No need to talk to anyone, or be polite, or bother about anything.

Joan G. Robinson

#4. Without the threat of punishment, there is no joy in flight.

Kobo Abe

#5. So you'll let me exert my will over you. I will gain a great deal of pleasure, joy even, in your submission. The more you submit, the greater my joy ... it's a very simple equation.

E.L. James

#6. It cannot be too often stressed that Israel had no credible pretext for its 2008-9 attack on Gaza, with full U.S. support and illegally using U.S. weapons.

Noam Chomsky

#7. All these men who loved Emma, I think. For all her problems, men were fixated on her. Will anyone ever feel like that about me?

J.P. Delaney

#8. I wash my face with soap and water. I use whatever I have. I will even wash my hair with the hotel shampoo, so I don't use anything special. I try to keep it simple.

Stephanie Sigman