First is our unbreakable rule that every candidate must be a trained trooper, blooded under fire, a veteran of combat drops. No other army in history has stuck to this rule, although some came close....
Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness.
Every general prohibition creates its bootleggers.
Duke, almost the only human characteristic Mike seems to possess is an overwhelming desire to be liked.
Democracy’s worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents—a depressingly low level, but what else can you expect?
Comrades, I beg you – do not resort to compulsory taxation. There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him.
Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit
But, Jill, if a thing is sinful on Sunday, it is sinful on Friday—at least it groks that way to an outsider, myself—or perhaps to a man from Mars.
But when I see a black widow, I step on it; I don’t plead with it to be a good little spider and please stop poisoning people.
Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.
Basic truths cannot change and once a man of insight expresses one of them it is never necessary, no matter how much the world changes, to reformulate them.
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
Admittedly, what he had seen only the day before in this very room was just as intellectually stupefying as these later events—but the emotional impact was something else. A mouse was as much a miracl...
Acting per se, like all art, is a process of abstracting, of retaining only significant detail. But in impersonation any detail can be significant.
From George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra: Pardon him, Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
Adult delinquents—people of mature years who either do not know their duty, or who, knowing it, fail.
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
Whenever women have insisted on absolute equality with men, they have invariably wound up with the dirty end of the stick. What they are and what they can do makes them superior to men, and their prop...
When, after a week, Jubal had had no other message, he sent a stat care of Ben's office: Whatthe hell are you doing? Ben's answer came back, somewhat delayed: Studying Martian and the rules forhopscot...
When did you ever worry about offending me?’ ‘Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.