"Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved."

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Source : "Lone Star Planet". Book by H. Beam Piper, 1958.

H. Beam Piper

#Texas Quotes #Excess Quotes #Killing Quotes

“In a way, the worldâˆ’view of the Party imposed itself most successfully on people incapable of understanding it. They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. By lack of understanding they remained sane. They simply swallowed everything, and what they swallowed did them no harm, because it left no residue behind, just as a grain of corn will pass undigested through the body of a bird.”
“Keep laughing. As long as you’re laughing you still have hope.”
“Popper and Nabokov are very different people in some ways - and I'm ready to devote large chunks of my life to both of them. Popper didn't think much of words but thought ideas mattered, and Nabokov didn't think much of ideas, but words mattered, and so on. But both of them had a sense that this is a world of infinite discovery, unending discovery. That quest to discover more in any direction is what I think drives me, and what drives humans, when they're doing the most interesting things.”
“I got nominated for my second film as best young director in the Aikido Film Festival in Japan.”
“The Lord's truth is not altered by fads, trends or public opinion.”
“The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and itâ€™s beautiful. Iâ€™ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, â€˜DONâ€™T THINK!â€™”
“Perhaps more than anything else, failure to recognize the precariousness and fickleness of confidence - especially in cases in which large short-term debts need to be rolled over continuously - is the key factor that gives rise to the this-time-is-different syndrome. Highly indebted governments, banks, or corporations can seem to be merrily rolling along for an extended period, when bang! - confidence collapses, lenders disappear, and a crisis hits.”
“I don't really have a lot of appropriate feelings for people on an individual basis, but I've always wanted to make people happy.”

Source : "How Dan Harmon Drives Himself Crazy Making Community" by Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. September 22, 2011.

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