In the fifteenth century the Pope deeded the entire western hemisphere to Spain and Portugal and nobody paid the slightest attention to the fact that the real estate was already occupied by several mi...
I see your point. It irks you to see anyone at all who is able to work permitted to live without working. But why do you consider work a virtue?
I know where I came from—but where did all you zombies come from?
He shall rule them with a rod of iron. —Revelations II:25
God created men to test the souls of women.
But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.
But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
Be raped quietly, you mean.
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human 'wisdom'...and the other twenty percent isn't very important.
But how, from the viewpoint of a Martian, did man differ from other animals? Would a race that could levitate and god knows what else be impressed by engineering? If so would the Aswan Dam or a thousa...
Was no such thing as a dangerous weapon, there were only dangerous men.
Young man, can you restore my eyesight? Sir? Why, no, sir! You would find it much easier than to instill moral virtue—social responsibility—into a person who doesn’t have it, doesn’t want it, and rese...
You really aren't here at all. There isn't anybody but me. Jane, here alone in the dark, I miss you dreadfully!
You don't own a cat, he is a free citizen. Take
You can die anyplace. They’ve never managed to regulate that.
Well, ‘hate’ is the other luxury an instructor can never afford. We must not hate them, we must not like them; we must teach them.
Value’ has no meaning other than in relation to living beings. The value of a thing is always relative to a particular person, is completely personal and different in quantity for each living human—‘m...
To permit irresponsible authority is to sell disaster.
The hardest part about gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. As long as that niche is occupied, evidence and proof and logical demonstration get nowhere. But once t...
Sense is never common.