Status Updates From Voyage from Yesteryear

“The mammals are here, and he thinks he can legislate them back into dinosaurs.”

“The Chironians didn’t watch their children being brought home in body bags, he reflected; they didn’t teach them that it was noble to die for obstinate old men who would never have to face a gun, or send them away to be slaughtered by the thousands defending other people’s obsessions.”

“As far as he was concerned, […] the notion of anybody presuming to decree moral standards for others and endeavoring to impose them by legislation was “obscene.”

“At least we don’t give out orders for other people to take our risks for us. The people who take the risks are the ones who believe it’s worth it. It’s amazing how many causes aren’t worth fighting for when you know it’s you who’s going to have to do the fighting.”

Meeting the Chironians - oh thank god, a break from the military talk!

“Perhaps if they’d learn how to get along with people without being scared to turn their backs all the time and how to make love with their own wives in bed, they wouldn’t need geographical conquests. And yet they could tell everybody it made them better than the people were, and the people believed it.”

While outdated in how women are discussed, I am enjoying the propaganda and conformity themes.