“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.”

“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable. ”

“Do your duty as you see it, and damn the consequences.”

“...life is a gift bestowed without anyone asking for it; that the thinking person has a philosophical duty to examine both the nature of life and the conditions it comes with; and that if this person decides to renounce the gift no one asks for, it is the moral and human duty to act on the consequences of that decision.”

“Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.”

“Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.”