Footfall Quotes

“God was knocking, and he wanted in bad.”
― Larry Niven, Footfall

“Did I just hear something tear?” General Gillespie asked. “It sounded like the Constitution.” Jenny caught the look on Max’s face. Interesting. He looked disgusted. A liberal general? We’re fighting snouts here!”
― Larry Niven, Footfall

“Those who will give up essential liberty to secure a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin”
― Larry Niven, Footfall

“The priest splayed his digits wide. “Herdmaster, I learn. Later I will speak.” “You do not seem pleased.” There was no answer. “A place of puzzles,” Pastempeh-keph said. “They surrender and have not surrendered. Their tapes show rogues acting in collusion. They live neither in herds nor alone. What are they?” “What do they believe themselves to be?” Fistarteh-thuktun asked. “Perhaps that is more important.”
― Larry Niven, Footfall

“Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not. - JEREMIAH 5:21”
― Larry Niven, Footfall

“The late eighties: Welfare had not increased to match inflation, and unemployment was down. There might have been a connection.”
― Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle, Footfall

“Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. - Thomas Paine, Common Sense”
― Larry Niven, Footfall

“Van der Stel, the thin Afrikaner who spoke of “Kaffirs” and expected blacks to call him “Baas” —but who also had genuine respect for the Zulu scouts, and always listened to their advice.”
― Larry Niven, Footfall

“Deputy Hargman snorted. “Sure there is. One good enough to get this town and everybody in it killed by a meteor.”
― Larry Niven, Footfall

“Hierarchies of plant life to the left, animal life to the right. Tiny, ancient single-nucleated life at the bottom, scaling toward complex warm-blooded air breathers at the top. Simple sketches at every level.”
― Larry Niven, Footfall

“dealt with biology, and Fistarteh-thuktun had studied it before. Hierarchies of plant life to the left, animal life to the right. Tiny, ancient single-nucleated life at the bottom, scaling toward complex warm-blooded air breathers at the top. Simple sketches at every level.”
― Larry Niven, Footfall

“One minute with him is all I ask; one minute alone with him, while you’re runnin’ for th’ priest an’ th’ doctor. - Sean O’Casey, The Plow and the Stars”
― Larry Niven, Footfall