Make Room! Make Room! Quotes

“One time we had the whole world in our hands, but we ate it and burned it and it's gone now.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“But doing something means that people must change, make an effort, use their minds, which is what most people do not like to do.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“So mankind gobbled in a century all the world’s resources that had taken millions of years to store up, and no one on the top gave a damn or listened to all the voices that were trying to warn them, they just let us overproduce and overconsume until now the oil is gone, the topsoil depleted and washed away, the trees chopped down, the animals extinct, the earth poisoned, and all we have to show for this is seven billion people fighting over the scraps that are left, living a miserable existence—and still breeding without control. So I say the time has come to stand up and be counted.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Let me tell you, I may look old but that’s just because of my age.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Birth control doesn’t mean no children. It just means that people have a choice how they want to live. Like rutting, unthinking, breeding animals—or like reasoning creatures. Will a married couple have one, two or three children—whatever number will keep the world population steady and provide a full life of opportunity for everyone? Or will they have four, five or six, unthinking and uncaring, and raise them in hunger and cold and misery? Like that world out there,”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“We got a plague of people, a disease of people infesting the world. We got more people who are living longer. Less people have to be born, that’s the answer. We got death control—we got to match it with birth control.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That's the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they're dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it's good enough for me. Bango, dead.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Darling, the history of medicine is the history of the violation of natural law. The Church—and that includes the Protestant as well as the Catholic—tried to stop the use of anesthetics because it was natural law for a woman to have pain while giving birth. And it was natural law for people to die of sickness. And natural law that the body not be cut open and repaired.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Two, four, six, eight—Welfare rations come too late. Three, five, seven, nine—Medicare is still behind.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“The Welfare ration cards took care of everything, everything that kept you alive and just alive enough to hate it.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“He didn't say so but Andy agreed with the bodyguard. A good-looking bird like this one didn't have to kill anyone. What she did she did for D's and if a guy gave her too much trouble she'd just walk out and find someone else with money. Not murder.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Because of the power shortage and lack of replacement parts there was only one elevator running in the Empire State Building, and this one went only as high as the twenty-fifth floor. After that you walked.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Gratitude you can’t expect, a salary you can. It’s a job.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“NEW YORK CITY— —stolen from the trusting Indians by the wily Dutch, taken from the law-abiding Dutch by the warlike British, then wrested in turn from the peaceful British by the revolutionary colonials.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“How can you kill something that never existed? We’re all winners in the ovarian derby, yet I never heard anyone crying about the—if you will excuse the biological term—the sperm who were the losers in the race.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“So they think wrong. Am I to blame because the world is full of fatheads? You know well enough that birth control has nothing to do with killing babies. In fact it saves them. Which is the bigger crime—letting kids die of disease and starvation or seeing that the unwanted ones don’t get born in the first place?”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“he snuffed the remaining powder into his other nostril and threw the scrap of thin plastic to the floor. There was no sensation, nothing at all, the world was the same and Billy knew that he had been cheated. Two D’s shot, gone for nothing. He leaned out of the glassless, frameless window and tears mixed with the perspiration on his face. He cried and thought about that for a while and thought how glad he was it was dark and no one could see him crying, not him, eighteen years old. Under his fingers the rough metal of the window opening had the feel of miniature mountain peaks and valleys. Jagged, smooth, soft, hard. He leaned close and stroked with his fingertips and the pleasure of the touch sent shivers of love running the length of his spine. Why had he never noticed this before? Bending, he put out his tongue and the sweet-sour-iron-dirt taste was so wonderful, and when he let the sharp front edges of his teeth touch the metal it felt as though he had bitten off a piece of steel half as big as the bridge.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“They are living symbols of the state of decay of our culture, just as this wasteland is a vastly more important symbol, that is why I am here.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Men should be spoiled, it makes them easier to live with.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“This is the start of a new era, equal rights for men and women.” She smiled at him and slid into her chair without another word. Damn, he thought, for another look like that I’d give her the whole thing.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“If you want the little luxuries of life you have to be prepared to pay for them.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Captain Chung Pei-fu of the Koumintang Army. A career soldier who had dedicated his life to war and who had never fought a battle.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“In 1950 the United States—with just 9.5 per cent of the world’s population—was consuming 50 per cent of the world’s raw materials.”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“increase”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

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― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“So mankind gobbled in a century all the world’s resources that had taken millions of years to store up, and no one on the top gave a damn or listened to all the voices that were trying to warn them, they just let us overproduce and overconsume until now the oil is gone, the topsoil depleted and washed away, the trees chopped down, the animals extinct, the earth poisoned, and all we have to show for this is seven billion people fighting over the scraps that are left, living a miserable existence”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“You know well enough that birth control has nothing to do with killing babies. In fact it saves them. Which is the bigger crime—letting kids die of disease and starvation or seeing that the unwanted ones don’t get born in the first place?”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“All the tenants liked him and called him Charlie. All the employees hated him and he had never heard what they called him”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!

“Looks like another scorcher today”
― Harry Harrison, Make Room! Make Room!