Sentiment was the easy thing. But logic reminded a man that some people insisted on living their neighbor's lives, that some people were offensive.
There were people with moral codes they clung to and lived by, people who worshiped in what they held to be the only orthodox way, people who clung to some idea—some rock on which their lives rested. Well and good. But if they tried to inflict these reforms on their neighbors, patience could only go so far, and the tolerance of fanaticism lasts just so long.


The Burning World, p. 57 (originally published in Infinity Science Fiction, July 1957) - The Unexpected Dimension (1960)

Algis Budrys Quotes

Sentiment was the easy thing. But logic reminded a man that some people insisted on living their neighbor's lives, that some people were offensive....

Sentiment was the easy thing. But logic reminded a man that some people insisted on living their neighbor's lives, that some people were offensive....

Sentiment was the easy thing. But logic reminded a man that some people insisted on living their neighbor's lives, that some people were offensive....

Sentiment was the easy thing. But logic reminded a man that some people insisted on living their neighbor's lives, that some people were offensive....