Joe Haldeman Quotes

People had written about that, warfare based on attrition of wealth rather than loss of life. But it's always been easier to make new lives than new wealth.

But love, he said, love was a fragile blossom; love was a delicate crystal; love was an unstable reaction with a half-life of about eight months. Bullshit, I said, and accused him of wearing cultural...

This is embarrassing. I uh, die and, um the last breath from my lungs is a terrible acid. It melts the seaward wall of the city and a hurricane comes and washes it away. All die. O the embarrassment-Y...

I die. I,uh, have a terrible fever in my head and it gets hotter and hotter and hotter until my head is a fire, a forge, a star. I set the world on fire and everybody dies. O the embarrassment.

I die. My footprints are cursed. I walk around the village not knowing that all who cross where I have been will stay in estrous zero and bear no young. Eventually all die. O the embarrassment.

This world was no place for anyone with access to another.

Most of us didn’t feel too enthusiastic about making a collapsar jump, either. We’d been assured that we wouldn’t even feel it happen, just free fall all the way. I wasn’t convinced. As a physics stud...

Well, there’s always Nevada, Benny said. You can buy anything from a hand laser to an atom bomb there.

Have you had your first baby yet? I might have one myself, once they find a way for the man to carry it around the first nine months.

The 1143-year-long war hand begun on false pretenses and only because the two races were unable to communicate.Once they could talk, the first question was 'Why did you start this thing?' and the answ...

I die. I breathe in and breahe in and cannot exhale. I explode all over my friends. They forget my name and pretend it is dung. They wash off in the square and the well becomes polluted. All die. O th...

War is the province of danger and therefore courage above all things is the first quality of a warrior, von Clausewitz maintained.

Science fiction as a genre has the benefit of being able to act as parable, to set up a story at a remove so you can make a real-world point without people throwing up a wall in front of it.

Scots, wha hae wi' Wallace bled;Scots, wham Bruce has aften led, Welcome to your glory bed, Or to victory.

So here we were, fifty men and fifty women, with IQs over 150 and bodies of unusual health and strength, slogging elitely through the mud and slush of central Missouri, reflecting on the usefulness of...

Marianne, how’s your statistics? Math is my worst subject. But you can program? Of course. I’m not illiterate.

One cannot make command decisions simply by assessing the tactical situation and going ahead with whatever course of action will do the most harm to the enemy with a minimum of death and damage to you...

I’ve always thought the pre-Revolutionary system was more elegant, but it did concentrate too much power in the hands of one person. Keyes says that at least you knew who the man was then. The person...

My back pay came to $892,746,012. Not in the form of bales of currency, fortunately; on Heaven they used an electronic credit exchange, so I carried my fortune around in a little machine with a digita...

Acest roman este dedicat lui John W. Campbell, care a respins o povestire fiindcă a considerat că-i absurd să scrii despre femei americane care luptă și mor în război, și lui Ben Bova, care a avut alt...