What Are We? Humans? Or Animals? Or

I Know There Isn't No Beast—not With Claws And All That, I Mean—but I Know There Isn't No Fear, Either." Piggy Paused. "unless—" Ralph Moved Restlessly. "unless What?" "unless We Get Frightened Of People.

Nothing Is So Impenetrable As Laughter In A Language You Don't Understand.

Utopias Are Presented For Our Inspection As A Critique Of The Human State. If They Are To Be Treated As Anything But Trivial Exercises Of The Imagination. I Suggest There Is A Simple Test We Can Apply. We Must Forget The Whole Paraphernalia Of Social Description, Demonstration, Expostulation, Approbation, Condemnation. We Have To Say To Ourselves, How Would I Myself Live In This Proposed Society? How Long Would It Be Before I Went Stark Staring Mad?

There Is, They Say, No Fool Like An Old Fool.

I Am Astonished At The Ease With Which Uninformed Persons Come To A Settled, A Passionate Opinion When They Have No Grounds For Judgment.