A verbalizing race has words for every old concept . . . and creates new words or new definitions for old words whenever a new concept comes along. Always! A nervous system that is able to verbalize c...
A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as ‘state’ and ‘society’ and ‘government’ have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals. He believes tha...
A poisonous snake is not dangerous, not any more than a loaded gun is dangerous—in each case, if you handle it properly. The thing that made that coral snake dangerous was that I hadn’t known what it...
A monarch’s neck should always have a noose around it—it keeps him upright.
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and the managers define what is 'irresponsible'.
A man can face known danger. But the unknown frightens him. We
A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom.
Stupid races don’t build spaceships!)
…certain feet were made for stepping on ,in order to improve the breed, promote the general welfare and minimize the ancient insolence of office..
When a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart.
In a matter of some generations all the stupid ones will die out and those with your discipline will inherit the Earth
Good luck’ follows careful preparation; ‘bad luck’ comes from sloppiness.
[A person], having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect.
Yes, yes, I know they make better pilots than men do; their reactions are faster, and they can tolerate more gee. They can get in faster, get out faster, and thereby improve everybody’s chances, yours...
Who is more real? Homer or Ulysses? Shakespeare or Hamlet? Burroughs or Tarzan?
When railroading time comes you can railroad—but not before.
What the self-styled modern artists are doing is a sort of unemotional pseudo-intellectual masturbation . . . whereas creative art is more like intercourse, in which the artist must seduce—render emot...
What is ‘truth’? Mike asked. (What is Truth? asked a Roman judge, and washed his hands of a troublesome question. Jubal wished that he could do likewise.)
What did I want? I wanted a Roc's egg. I wanted a harem loaded with lovely odalisques less than the dust beneath my chariot wheels, the rust that never stained my sword,. I wanted raw red gold in nugg...
We’re simply trying to survive—and the first principle of survival is not to worry about the impossible and concentrate on what’s possible.