Unless you intend to kill him immediately thereafter, never kick a man in the balls. Not even symbolically. Or perhaps especially not symbolically.
But when they began handing out doctorates for comparative folk dancing and advanced fly-fishing, I became too stink in’ proud to use the title. I won’t touch watered whiskey and I take no pride in watered-down degrees.
The only religious opinion I feel sure of is this: self-awareness is not just a bunch of amino acids bumping together.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and their freedoms.
To support his austerely upholstered nest and its rabble staff he put forth minimum effort for maximum return simply because it was easier to be rich than to be poor – Harshaw merely wished to live exactly as he liked, doing whatever he thought was best for him.
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the superiority of their children- has never been plumbed.
Harshaw had the arrogant humility of the man who has learned so much that he is aware of his own ignorance and he saw no point in ‘measurements’ when he did not know what he was measuring.
God made alcohol and he made feet – and he made ‘em so you could put ’em together and be happy!
The verdict to be passed on the third planet around Sol was never in doubt.
An honest politician is one that stays bought.
I’ve never been able to understand ‘faith’ myself, nor to see how a just God could expect his creatures to pick the one true religion out of an infinitude of false ones – by faith alone. It strikes me as a sloppy way to run an organization, whether universe or a smaller one.
It comes from exercising care in the choice of parents.
The very idea that the Chief would let anybody expose himself to danger in his place is-well, I ought to slap your face; that’s what I ought to do!
If the universe has any purpose more important than topping a woman you love and making a baby with her hearty help, I’ve never heard of it.
Dorcas, you already reek like a Marseilles cat house; don’t wheedle Mike for more stinkum.
I wonder how harmless such people are? To what extent civilization is retarded by the laughing jackasses, the empty-minded belittlers?
Good luck, boys! This time we take ’em!
That we were slaves I had known all my life – and nothing could be done about it. True, we weren’t bought and sold – but as long as Authority held monopoly over what we had to have and what we could sell to buy it, we were slaves.
Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accept the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay-and claims a halo for his dishonesty.
She might say: “This mess will clear up if you take that troublemaker there – What’s your name? You, with the goatee – out and shoot him. Do it now.” – Glory Road; Heinlein.