“You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.”
― Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children
― Revolt in 2100/Methuselah's Children
“A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.”
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
― The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
“Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“If a grasshopper tries to fight a lawnmower, one may admire his courage but not his judgement.”
― Farnham's Freehold
― Farnham's Freehold
“The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.”
― Time Enough for Love
― Time Enough for Love
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