Revolution is an art that I pursue rather than a goal I expect to achieve. Nor is this a source of dismay; a lost cause can be as spiritually satisfying as a victory.
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.
In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
Never insult anyone by accident.
The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love.
Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.
The way to find justice is to deal fairly with other people and not worry about how they deal with you.
Sense is never common.
It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark.
There are perhaps 5% of the population that simply can't think. There are another 5% who can, and do. The remaining 90% can think, but don't
If a country can't save itself through the volunteer service of its own free people, then I say : Let the damned thing go down the drain!
But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.
If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called 'behaviorist psychology.'
When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.
Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.
Cats have no sense of humor, they have terribly inflated egos, and they are very touchy.
In ascending order the qualities of Patriotism are: 1. To work, fight, or die for your own survival. 2. To work, fight, or die for your immediate family. 3. To work, fight, or die for a group, extended family, tribe, or clan. 4. To work, fight, or die for a group too large for all the individuals to know each other. 5. To work, fight, or die for a way of life.
A brute kills for pleasure. A fool kills from hate.
I was no fool; I was aware that when another man is too anxious to force money on one, it is time to examine the cards, for there is almost certainly something illegal, or dangerous, or both, involved in the matter.
Civilians are like beans; you buy 'em as needed for any job which merely requires skill and savvy. But you can't buy fighting spirit.
All my enemies are self-appointed.
Nothing gives life more zest that running for your life.
Self awareness is NOT just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
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