The curious race, the Earthers. Young, only a few years removed from savagery, contaminated by the past, correspondingly exuberant and direct. Slaves of the Klau (1958)
You have no concept of Magarak’s reality; you refuse to think; you live by ready-made emotional doctrines—a substitute for thought. What is worse, you try to wrench reality to fit your ideas. Slaves of the Klau (1958)
“There is war between us that perhaps you cannot completely understand—a long-range combat of our—” she sought for a word to express a complex Lekthwan idea “— moral vitality. In the end we will win. Meanwhile many people suffer.” She shrugged. “The universe is not a paradise.” Slaves of the Klau (1958)
“Do you still think I’m crazy?”Her glance went to his left shoulder. “I’m not well enough acquainted with the norm of your people to judge.”Barch rose to his feet. He said thickly, “About ten more minutes of double talk, I actually would be crazy.” Slaves of the Klau (1958)
“What’s the trouble? Given up?”“What is there to give up?”“Confidence.”She said in a soft voice, “We’re slaves; slaves have no need for confidence.”“I’m not a slave until I feel like a slave.” Slaves of the Klau (1958)