Quotes from Charles E. Gannon

Maybe that's the way of things, too. That the more beautiful a thing is, the shorter it seems to last. People now less than flowers

Maybe that's the way of things, too. That the more beautiful a thing is, the shorter it seems to last. People no less than flowers.

No matter our personal dedication to goodness and justice, we are all, in greater or lesser measure, complicit in the injustices of the society which we tolerate. Even if we tolerate it for the best of reasons, it is a constant struggle not to be consumed by the self-contempt that such accommodation threatens to breed in any person of conscience.

Because in the Renaissance, broadly integrative thought was at a premium; empirical method was in its infancy. Now, with the tools of measurement so highly refined, we produce lots of narrow specialists but fewer expansive thinkers." "Well,

first rule of tropical weather—don't fight against it; go with it.

Doctor, if something goes wrong, there is probably squat-all we can do about it, anyway. I'm sure you folks have been chatting about the ship that just came in so you're probably guessing the same thing I am: that if these Dornaani wanted to put their foot up our ass and wriggle their toes out our nostrils, I doubt there's a thing in creation we could do about it.

they were undisciplined, imprecise, ill-trained, dim-witted, and clumsy.

The same collection of cut-throats, crooks, and incompetents are still steering our planet's various ships of state.