Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Secrecy begets tyranny.
I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.
Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future.
I don’t see why human people make such a heavy trip out of sex. It isn’t anything complex, it is simply the best thing in life, even better than food.
I think that science fiction has a distinct therapeutic value because all of it has as its primary postulate that the world does change. I cannot overemphasize the importance of that idea.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don’t ever count on having both at once.
You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity.
In Wilson’s scale of evaluations breakfast rated just after life itself and ahead of the chance of immortality.
To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy – and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.
Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry.
If you’ve got the truth you can demonstrate it. Talking doesn’t prove it.
I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
When a place gets crowded enough to require ID’s, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.
Anyone who can worship a trinity and insist that his religion is a monotheism can believe anything.