The commonest weakness of our race is our ability to rationalize our most selfish purposes.
The discovery of life on Mars is something that, politically, they haven’t figured out yet.
The faith I was reared in didn’t require anybody to know anything. Just confess your sins and be saved, and there you were, safe in the arms of Jesus. A man could be too stupid to hit the floor with h...
The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.
The junior hoodlums who roamed their streets were symptoms of a greater sickness; their citizens (all of them counted as such) glorified their mythology of ‘rights’ . . . and lost track of their dutie...
The only constant thing in these shifting, fairy-chess worlds is human love.
The practical reason for continuing our system is the same as the practical reason for continuing anything: It works satisfactorily. Nevertheless,
The universe will let us know—later—whether or not Man has any right to expand through it. In
There comes a time in the life of every human when he or she must decide to risk his life, his fortune, and his sacred honor on an outcome dubious. Those who fail the challenge are merely overgrown ch...
There is no such thing as a humane war.
This very personal relationship, ‘value,’ has two factors for a human being: first, what he can do with a thing, its use to him . . . and second, what he must do to get it, its cost to him. There is a...
To the everlasting glory of the Infantry—
Two bodies attract each other directly as the product of their masses and inversely as the square of their distance.' It sounds like a rule for simple physical facts, does it not? Yet it is nothing of...
War is a simple matter compared with revolution. War is an applied science, with well-defined principles tested in history; analogous solutions may be found from ballista to H-bomb. But every revoluti...
We learned not to waste ammo even on warriors except in self-protection
What distinguishes Buddhism from any other faith I’ve studied—from most human beings, really—is that the people who face the wall and the people who face away from it have never fought a war over it....
What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly . . .
When did you ever worry about offending me?’ ‘Always, Man, once I understood that you could be offended.
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...
Women are amazing creatures-sweet, soft, gentle, and far more savage than we are.
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