But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.
Being a mother is an attitude, not a biological relation.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
Money is a powerful aphrodisiac but flowers work almost as well.
Most women are damn fools and children. But they've got more range than we've got. The brave ones are braver, the good ones are better - and the vile ones are viler, for that matter.
You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
Brainpower is the scarcest commodity and the only one of real value.
It's a man's business to be what he is, and to be it in style.
"I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much... because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting" ... "But that's not all people laugh at." "Isn't it? Perhaps I don't grok all its fullness yet. But find me something that really makes you laugh sweetheart... a joke, or anything else- but something that gave you a a real belly laugh, not a smile. Then we'll see if there isn't a wrongness wasn't there." He thought. "I grok when apes learn to laugh, they'll be people."
I did the only really brave thing I have ever done in my life: I inched forward.
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.
Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.
The whole principle (censorship) is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak.
An animal so poor in spirit that he won't even fight on his own behalf is already an evolutionary dead end; the best he can do for his breed is to crawl off and die, and not pass on his defective genes.
History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.
Take sex away from people. Make it forbidden, evil. Limit it to ritualistic breeding. Force it to back up into suppressed sadism. Then hand the people a scapegoat to hate. Let them kill a scapegoat occasionally for cathartic release. The mechanism is ages old. Tyrants used it centuries before the word "psychology" was ever invented. It works, too.
It was better to live with disappointment and frustration than to live without hope.
The less respect an older person deserves the more certain he is to demand it from anyone younger.
The early worm deserves the bird.
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few.
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
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