Some things, the more you understand the more you loathe them.
I wanted the feeling of romance and the sense of wonder I had known as a kid. I wanted the world to be what they had promised me it was going to be – instead of the tawdry, lousy fouled-up mess it is.
The intelligent fights only when he must and never for sport.
Must be a yearning deep in human heart to stop other people from doing as they please. Rules, laws – always for other fellow. A murky part of us, something we had before we came down out of trees, and failed to shuck when we stood up.
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.
Behind every mystery lies another mystery.
All my enemies are self-appointed.
The moral difference between a soldier and a civilian is that the soldier accepts personal responsibility for the safety of the body politic of which he is a member. The civilian does not.
The more you love, the more you can love – and the more intensely you love.
The purpose of war is to support your government’s decisions by force.
No intelligent man has any respect for an unjust law.
When I don’t understand, I have an unbearable itch to know why.
Wisdom includes not getting angry unnecessarily. The Law ignores trifles and the wise man does, too.
Being privileged to work hard for long hours at something you think is worth doing is the best kind of play.
Anything free costs twice as much in the long run or turns out worthless.
Nobody has ever seen an electron. Nor a thought. You can’t see a thought, you can’t measure, weigh, nor taste it- but thoughts are the most real things in the Galaxy.
Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily.
To assess the intelligence of a committee, divide the IQ of its stupidest member by the number of members.
You can go wrong by being too skeptical as readily as by being too trusting.
Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.