Simply because an evil was inescapable was no reason to term it a 'good.
Politics is not evil; politics is the human race’s most magnificent achievement.
Marrying Gretchen is a good idea, darling; I would enjoy bringing her up. Teaching her to shoot, helping her with her first baby, coaching her in how to handle a knife, working out with her in martial...
Man has no moral instinct. He is not born with moral sense. You were not born with it, I was not - and a puppy has none. We acquire moral sense, when we do, through training, experience, and hard swea...
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy - in fact, they are almost incomp...
If I’ve reached the place where I’m a good influence on anybody, it’s time I cultivated some new vices.
I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting...But that's not all people laugh at.Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all...
I'm not feisty. But when you're as small as I am and female if you don't stand up for your rights, you're sure to be pushed around by big, hairy, smelly men with delusions about male superiority.
I was not offended, my love. An insult is like a drink; it affects one only if accepted. And pride is too heavy baggage for my journey...
I pity the poverty of your wealth.
I don’t know, he had answered grimly, except that the time-tested method of instilling social virtue and respect for law in the minds of the young did not appeal to a pre-scientific pseudo-professiona...
I began to sense faintly that secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy . . . censorship. When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, Th...
Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was a specialist in exotic biologies--the same Vargas who was on the Second Venus Expediti...
He was finding it ruinously expensive to be rich.
Grok’ means to understand so thoroughly that the observer becomes a part of the process being observed—to merge, to blend, to intermarry, to lose personal identity in group experience.
God made alcohol and he made feet - and he made 'em so you could put 'em together and be happy!
Getting a problem analyzed is two-thirds of solving it.
Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.
Forgiveness and thanks go hand in hand.