The only true non-conformists are in the asylums; the only radically free spirits are in the death house awaiting the chair. We live by patterns.
Herman Wouk
The only true non-conformists ...
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The President has a quick and able mind, though not everybody gives him that, not by a long shot.
Herman Wouk
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.
Herman Wouk
Some people think that all the equipment you need to discuss religion is a mouth.
Herman Wouk
Human life cannot be formless. We live by patterns. We move in comradeships. Conformity is evil when it distorts, flattens, and erases fruitful ways, strong ideas, natural identities; it is evil when it is a steamroller. But a man cannot escape being part of a milieu - and a recognizable part - unless he flees naked to a cave, never to return. The sensible thing is to use hard thinking to find the right way to live and then to live that way. What matters is living with dignity, with decency, and without fear.
Herman Wouk
