Mack Reynolds > Quotes

“Man is at his most stubborn when his religious, socioeconomic, or political beliefs need change.”
― Mack Reynolds, Section G: United Planets

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"Don't roach me, funker," she said. "And don't shirk off in your
electro-steamer. This mopsy wants to poke."
--Mack Reynolds, _Commune 2000 A.D._, 1974”
― Mack Reynolds

“Well, the general theme of it seems to be that we’re getting back at them.” “Who’s them?” “Nobody in particular. Whoever happens to be trying to push us around, as they put it; making us do things we don’t want to.”
― Mack Reynolds, The Science Fiction Crime Megapack®: 26 Criminally Futuristic Stories!

“when crime becomes big enough, it’s no longer crime. The former criminals are in a position to buy legality.”
― Mack Reynolds, The Science Fiction Crime Megapack®: 26 Criminally Futuristic Stories!

“For years, Aldrich had pondered the vastness of that horizon, feeling always that just beyond the grasp of the understanding, something important waited. Deep in his heart he knew it was the vastness of this unknown horizon that had inspired him for years to carry on the patient, mind-wrenching toil necessary even to begin to investigate extrasensory perception. He hadn’t expected to learn everything about the psi ability—the work of centuries would be necessary for that—but he knew he would die happy if he could add just one fragment of demonstrable fact to the oceans of speculation on the subject. If the unknown was as vast as the sands of all the seashores on earth, his prayer had always been, “Dear God, let me understand just one grain of sand. Let me have just one grain of sand, one known fact. You have so many grains of sand—give me just one.” This, from Aldrich, who was not a religious man!”
― Mack Reynolds, The Science Fiction Crime Megapack®: 26 Criminally Futuristic Stories!

“A state absolutely sovereign as Thomas Hobbes saw it—accepting no infringements on its rights, confined in a geographic boundary, beset by enemies equally sovereign, equally ambitious and presumably equally well or better armed—could only be at war or preparing for war.”
― Mack Reynolds, The Science Fiction Crime Megapack®: 26 Criminally Futuristic Stories!

“Anyone who listened to the debates over the Asian War will testify that not a single state put the international order before its own national interests, nor was it capable of so doing. The state by its very nature of acting in its own national interests cannot perform otherwise.”
― Mack Reynolds, The Science Fiction Crime Megapack®: 26 Criminally Futuristic Stories!

“busy tracking some sand in his salad”
― Mack Reynolds, The Science Fiction Crime Megapack®: 26 Criminally Futuristic Stories!

“Until he worked his great coup, Conway Limbeck was a minor criminal preying on the gullible-minded and larcenous-hearted.”
― Mack Reynolds, The Science Fiction Crime Megapack®: 26 Criminally Futuristic Stories!