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Circumstances can force your hand. So think ahead!

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats.

A human being has no natural rights of any nature.

Rights Quotes

The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.

I counted to ten slowly, using binary notation.

Never crowd youngsters about their private affairs – sex especially.

Are you trying to tell all of us we have a bad signal-to-noise ratio?

We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection.

To vote is to wield authority; it is the supreme authority from which all other authority derives – such.

If men were the automatons that behaviorists claim they are, the behaviorist psychologists could not have invented the amazing nonsense called ‘behaviorist psychology.’

Being sorry won’t get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.

In handling a stinging insect, move very slowly.

But I contend that the disgusting behavior of many of their alleged ‘holy men’ relieves us of any intellectual obligation to take the stuff seriously. No amount of sanctimonious rationalization can make such behavior anything but pathological.

A man who marries at my age isn’t taking a wife, he’s indenturing a nurse.

High Frontier places a bullet-proof vest on our bare chest. High Frontier is as non-aggressive as a bullet-proof vest. There is no way to kill anyone with High Frontier – all that High Frontier can do is to keep others from killing us.

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science.

I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats – I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.

The saddest thing about ephemerals was that their little lives rarely held time enough for love.

Every law that was ever written opened up a new way to graft.

Little Brother... precious darling... little imp with lively legs and lovely lewd lascivious lecherous licentious libido... beautiful bumps and pert posterior... with soft voice and gentle hands. My baby darling.

Don’t explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin.

I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.

Boats and ships are female because they are beautiful, lovable, expensive and unpredictable.

Son, the phrase is self-contradictory; “sense” is never “common”.

Nevertheless, once you pick up a stray cat and feed it, you cannot abandon it. Self-love forbids it. The cat’s welfare becomes essential to your own peace of mind – even when it’s a bloody nuisance not to break faith with the cat.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Real Quotes

I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

In Wilson’s scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.

Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness, but I don’t argue with it especially as I am rarely in a position to prove that it is mistaken. Negative proof is usually impossible.

Remember this: once the human race is established on more than one planet and especially, in more than one solar system, there is no way now imaginable to kill off the human race.

I’m not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.

There is solemn satisfaction in doing the best you can for eight billion people. Perhaps their lives have no cosmic significance, but they have feelings. They can hurt.

All men are created unequal.

You got the impression that he never needed to sleep – just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.

The ordinary bloke will not voluntarily pay for “art” that leaves him unmoved – if he does pay for it, the money has to be conned out of him, by taxes and such.

Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

When you’re rich, you don’t have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

Since survival is the sine qua non, I now define the “moral behavior” as “behavior that tends toward survival”.

Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws – always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.

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.

Gratitude: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, altruism. Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion.

Real Quotes

Drop dead-but first get permit.

Firsts Quotes

What a wonderful world it is that has girls in it!

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.

Selfishness is the bedrock on which all moral behavior starts and it can be immoral only when it conflicts with a higher moral imperative.

A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals.

Most women are damn fools and children. But they’ve got more range than we’ve got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better – and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.

Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.

If I had a Boy Scout I could make a fire by rubbing his hind legs together.

Decency is not news. It is buried in the obituaries, but it is a force stronger than crime.