Tuf Voyaging Quotes

“Make no choice, and you have chosen. Failure to decide, because you lack the right, is itself a decision, First Councilor. In abstaining, you vote.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Monsters are entirely mythological, sir, like spirits, werebeasts, and competent bureaucrats.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“The sad truth of history has always been that the unreasoning masses follow the powerful, and not the wise.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Her name was Tolly Mune, but in the stories they call her all sorts of things.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“A culture with cats is richer and more humane than one deprived of their unique companionship.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“La historia ha confirmado la triste verdad de que las masas irracionales siempre se han alineado detrás del poderoso y no del sabio.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Such are the vicissitudes of life," Tuf said, "that each of us must sometimes accept that which he does not like.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Equity is often difficult to judge, and still more difficult to achieve,”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“I wait with sullen resignation,” said Tuf, unmoving.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Se comete un gran error creyendo que los seres humanos son capaces de alcanzar tarde o temprano los límites de su satisfacción.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“-Te llamaré Sospecha... tus compañeros de camada serán Duda, Hostilidad, Ingratitud y Estupidez.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Weight, sir, is entirely a function of gravity, and is therefore most malleable. Moreover, I am unwilling to concede you the authority to judge my weight over, under, or just right, these being subjective criteria. Aesthetics vary from world to world, as do genotypes and hereditary predisposition. I am quite satisfied with my present mass, sir.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“No sooner had the Flowering taken root, so to speak, than your people rushed back to their private chambers, unleashed their carnal lusts and parental urges, and began reproducing faster than ever. Mean family size is greater now than five years ago, by .0072 persons, and your average citizen becomes a parent sooner by .0102 years.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“It fits,” said Tolly Mune. “Sometimes I feel this ship is haunted.” “This suggests why it is wiser to rely upon intellect rather than feelings, Portmaster.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“I have a decided personal aversion to death, I find entropy distasteful, and if invited to the heat death of the universe, I would most certainly make other plans.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“I have developed something of an antipathy, no doubt over-hasty and unjustified, to some of the individual specimens of life I have come upon during chance encounters in my travels. A few have even expressed open hostility to me, directing at me epithets clearly derogatory of my size and mass.” “Well,” said the host, flushing, “I’m sorry, but you are, uh, ample, and on S’uthlam it is, uh, socially unacceptable to be, uh, overweight.” “Weight, sir, is entirely a function of gravity, and is therefore most malleable. Moreover, I am unwilling to concede you the authority to judge my weight over, under, or just right, these being subjective criteria. Aesthetics vary from world to world, as do genotypes and hereditary predisposition. I am quite satisfied with my present mass, sir.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“An ecosystem might be likened to a great biological machine, perhaps. If this analogy is pursued, humanity must be seen as part of the machine. No doubt an important part—an engine, a key circuit—but in no case apart from the mechanism, as is often fallaciously assumed.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Came out of Old Earth. Power corrupts, it went, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“- Vous ne valez pas mieux que nous. Vous n'êtes qu'un homme, Tuf. Un sacré drôle de numéro, je vous l'accorde, mais un homme, ni plus ni moins. Qu'est-ce qui vous donne ce foutu droit de jouer avec notre planète, avec nos vies, de vous prendre pour un dieu ?
- L'Arche, répondit simplement Haviland Tuf.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“N'étant pas moi-même mangeur de chaire animale, je ne peux m'engager sur la réponse. J'imagine toutefois que la bêtaviande sera au goût de toute personne mourant de faim.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Hélas, les miracles ne sont qu'illusions, farfadets de mythes, et je n'ai rien d'autre sous le coude que mon avant-bras.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Le poids, monsieur, est fonction de la gravité. C'est pas conséquent une notion tout à fait relative. En outre, je ne consens pas à vous reconnaître quelque compétence que ce soit pour juger si mon poids est excessif ou convenable, compte tenu de la subjectivité des critères d'évaluation. L'esthétique varie d'un monde à l'autre, tout comme les génotypes et les prédispositions héréditaires. Je suis parfaitement satisfait de ma masse actuelle, monsieur.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Un monde vraiment civilisé laisse une place aux félins.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“Such are the vicissitudes of life,” Tuf said, “that each of us must sometimes accept that which he does not like.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging

“If," said Haviland Tuf. "A most difficult word. So short, and so often fraught with disappointment and frustration.”
― George R.R. Martin, Tuf Voyaging