Sarah

“Thinking doesn't pay. Just makes you discontented with what you see around you.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land

“Intelligence without risk is an empty thought, as is an intelligence whose realization takes no time. Risk and time are the presuppositions for the history of intelligence in which nothing is given in advance and nothing is completed as the totality of that history.”
― Reza Negarestani, Intelligence and Spirit

“Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“I am not a pacifist. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay—and claims a halo for his dishonesty.”
― Robert A. Heinlein, Double Star