23 Quotations by Lazarus Long
- 1. A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a ...
- 2. A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, desig ...
- 3. An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
- 4. Autocracy is based on the assumption that one man is wiser than a million men. Let's play that over ...
- 5. Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.
- 6. Being intelligent is not a felony, but most societies evaluate it as at least a misdemeanor.
- 7. Beware of altruism. It is based on self-deception, the root of all evil.
- 8. Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous.
- 9. Democracy is based on the assumption that a million men are wiser than one man. How's that again? I ...
- 10. Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
- 11. Everything in excess! To enjoy the flavor of life, take big bites. Moderation is for monks.
- 12. History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a c ...
- 13. If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion.
- 14. Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and ...
- 15. No state has an inherent right to survive through conscript troops and in the long run no state ever ...
- 16. No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does ...
- 17. One man's "magic" is another man's engineering. "Supernatural" is a null word.
- 18. One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.
- 19. Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a si ...
- 20. The phrase "we (I) (you) simply must..." designates something that need not be done. "That goes with ...
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