The Caves of Steel

When the lesser is incompatible with the greater, the lesser must give way.”

“As little as possible, as much as necessary.”

And now he had to stand in the middle of a growing riot and beat down men and women who, after all, only feared declassification for themselves and those they loved, as he himself did.

Lije, those three days were hell.”
“On account of the glasses?”
“And other things, too. I’m getting to that.”

were allowed to grow by feeding on our continued failure

look like an awful lemon

He remembered his mother not at all

It also kept the principles in the argument from leaving