The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits;.
Well, ‘hate’ is the other luxury an instructor can never afford. We must not hate them, we must not like them; we must teach them.
Maybe the whole world held together only when you kept your attention centered on it and believed in it. If you let discrepancies creep in, you began to doubt and it began to go to pieces.
He had more than his share of that streak of anarchy which was the birthright of every American;.
The weak ones died, and the bad ones died or were killed; the stock that survived was always stronger, smarter, more decent. New Beginnings was a planet to be proud of, and it would get better and better and better for a long time.
I say ‘art’ advisedly, for art is undefined, undefinable, and without limits. I can use the word without fear of misusing it, for it has no exact meaning. There are as many meanings as there are artists.
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.
A managed democracy is a wonderful thing, Manuel, for the managers.
He could not afford to believe anything that he was told, or that he read, or that was implicitly assumed to be true about the world around him. No, he could not believe any of it, for the sum total of what be had been told and read and been taught in school was so contradictory, so senseless, so wildly insane that none of it could be believed unless he personally confirmed it.
She found as always that words on paper proved themselves; they were so beautifully true.
Terra had climbed well beyond that which its.
It is almost impossible to shake of one’s earliest training. Duke, can you get it through your skull that had you been brought up by Martians, you would have the same attitude toward eating and being eaten as Mike has.
A public employee, having no self-respect, needs and demands a show of public respect.
If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.
The discovery of life on Mars is something that, politically, they haven’t figured out yet.
There was a lot to be said for the job of assistant section leader – when you come right to it, it’s a lot easier to die than it is to use your head.
Almost all crime depends on the acquiescence of the victim. If the victim refuses his assigned role, the criminal is placed at a disadvantage – one so severe, that it usually takes an understanding and compassionate judge to set things right. I had broken the rules. I had fought back.
If change threatens you, you become conservative in self-defense. If it thrills you, you become liberal in self-liberation. He says the Threateneds are frequently more successful in the short run, because they always fight dirty. But in the long run, they always lose, because Thrilled people learn and thus accomplish more.
He’s a man by ancestry, a Martian by environment.
Why it can’t be done is not acceptable; I must discover how it can be done.