Adam Meek > Adam's Quotes

“It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.”
― Robert A. Heinlein

“The gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”
― Larry Niven, Ringworld

“Mother Nature doesn't care if you're having fun. ”
― Larry Niven

“A civilization has the ethics it can afford”
― Larry Niven

“The perversity of the Universe tends towards a maximum”
― Larry Niven, Ringworld

“Everything in life is just for a while.”
― Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly

“Certainly it constitutes bad news when the people who agree with you are buggier than batshit.”
― Philip K. Dick

“There is a false saying: “How can someone who can’t save himself save others?” Supposing I have the key to your chains, why should your lock and my lock be the same?”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“These engineered human beings may be happy in such a society, but they most certainly will not be free. They will have been reduced to the status of domestic animals.”
― Theodore J. Kaczynski, Industrial Society and Its Future

“So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.”
― Ray Bradbury

“The most central and irrational faith among people is the faith in technology and economical growth. Its priests believe until their death that material prosperity bring enjoyment and happiness - even though all the proofs in history have shown that only lack and attempt cause a life worth living, that the material prosperity doesn't bring anything else than despair. These priests believe in technology still when they choke in their gas masks.”
― Pentti Linkola, Can Life Prevail?

“Sit down and drink some tea; as that will annoy America.”
― Ruhollah Khomeini