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In terms of morals there is no such thing as ‘state.’ Just men. Individuals. Each responsible for his own acts.
There ain't no such thing as a free lunch." A Libertarian Movement slogan - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress, 1907.
The universe is almost like a huge magic trick and scientists are trying to figure out how it does what it does.
Reason is poor propaganda when opposed by the yammering, unceasing lies of shrewd and evil and self-serving men.
Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.
Per capita, I would say that Australia has more biomimetic projects going than many other countries I've been to.
I am not nearly so interested in what monkey man was derived from as I am in what kind of monkey he is to become.
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.
I'm not trying to frighten you, but only a fool makes predictions based on ignorance; I am not that sort of fool.
Anything which is physically possible can always be made financially possible; money is a bugaboo of small minds.
What a misfortune it is that we should thus be compelled to let our boys schooling interfere with their education!
The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.
The basic of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
Men rarely if ever dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
It may be better to be a live jackal than a dead lion, but it is better still to be a live lion. And usually easier.
Sovereign," like "love," means anything you want it to mean; it's a word in dictionary between "sober" and "sozzled.
Trees are right at the heart of all the necessary debates: ecological, social, economic, political, moral, religious.
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable.
There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I missed something.
A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!
The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
You got the impression that he never needed to sleep - just ten-thousand-mile checkups and dust him off occasionally.
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.
Under what circumstances is it moral for a group to do that which is not moral for a member of that group to do alone?
Organisms dont think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
Nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America--and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
One might define adulthood as the age at which a person learns that he must die ...and accepts his sentence undismayed.
Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block.
The United States has become a place where entertainers and professional athletes are mistaken for people of importance.
Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.
I have never been able to see life as anything but a vast complicated practical joke, and it's better to laugh than cry.
Limiting the freedom of news 'just a little bit' is in the same category with the classic example 'a little bit pregnant.
You think that way as you begin to get grayer and you see pretty plainly that the game is not going to end as you planned.
A community where everyone is a ruthless murderer, with handy access to death-dealing devices, is a very polite community.
Nursing does not diminish the beauty of a woman's breasts; it enhances their charm by making them look lived in and happy.
Evolution has led to some populations of people being able to digest milk without much trouble when they're adults as well.
Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hover a million other lives that were never destined to be born.
I am not going to talk about religious beliefs, but about matters so obvious that it has gone out of style to mention them.
Man is always marveling at what he has blown apart, never at what the universe has put together, and this is his limitation.
There are things which cannot be taught in ten easy lessons, nor popularized for the masses; they take years of skull sweat.
People who go broke in a big way never miss any meals. It is the poor jerk who is shy a half slug who must tighten his belt.
I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
No storyteller has been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.
The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.
The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.