“Remember that life is a lot like medicine: at the end of the day, everything is a matter of risk versus benefit, pro versus con.”
“Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death. ”
“I don’t know if any plot involving Spencer would be good versus evil, more like evil versus slightly less evil.”
“I am ashamed to admit that I have contemplated living versus ending it all.”
“We speak of the masculine and the feminine, but they are the wrong labels. It is really more a matter of poetry versus intellectualization.”
“The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is already losing its importance. What matters today, the issue which blocks the horizon, is the need for a redistribution of wealth. Humanity will have to address this question, no matter how devastating the consequences may be.”