“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
― Farnham's Freehold
― Farnham's Freehold
“If God existed (a question concerning which Jubal maintained a meticulous intellectual neutrality) and if He desired to be worshiped (a proposition which Jubal found inherently improbable but conceivably possible in the dim light of his own ignorance), then (stipulating affirmatively both the above) it nevertheless seemed wildly unlikely to Jubal to the point of reductio ad absurdum that a God potent to shape galaxies would be titillated and swayed by the whoop-te-do nonsense the Fosterites offered Him as "worship.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
“I will accept any rules that you feel necessary to your freedom. I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“I grok in fullness.”
― Stranger in a Strange Land
― Stranger in a Strange Land
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