Gwyllm and Prof. Mathers in “Unfinished Business”

The whole town must be utterly destroyed. An example must be made.

You're wrong.

The human race has a gift, professor. A gift that sets it above all the other creatures that abound upon this earth. The gift of thought, reasoning, understanding. The highly developed brain. But the human race has ceased to develop. It struggles for petty comfort and false security. There is no time for thought. Soon there will be no time for reasoning and man will lose sight of the truth.