Alexei Panshin Quotes

August 14, 1940

Alexis Adams Panshin (born August 14, 1940) is an American author and science fiction critic.

Brains are no good if you don’t use them.

Chapter 15 (p. 203)

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Population pressure is the ultimate cause of every war.

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— Chapter 1 (p. 9)

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You can’t stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

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— Chapter 3 (p. 39)

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I hadn’t gone into the subject of dorm living too deeply with him, not because I hesitated to probe his tender spots but because I would have been probing my own. This is called tact, and is reputed to be a virtue.

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— Chapter 7 (p. 97)

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Some people get a feeling of power from being unpleasant.

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— Chapter 9 (p. 126)

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I am completely convinced that the ultimate weapon is one that you can hold in your hand, point at a person, and thereby completely disrupt his sense of balance. All that he could do is lie in a huddled heap and puke. It would probably disrupt the concept of heroics for all time.

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— Chapter 10 (p. 139)

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The rest of our weekend sleeping arrangements, hand-done work, hand-prepared food was simple enough to please Thoreau, who I am convinced was a nice fellow who confused rustic vacations with life.

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— Chapter 11 (p. 157)

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I finished by saying that it struck me that all the ethical systems I was discussing were after the fact. That is, that people act as they are disposed to, but they like to feel afterwards that they were right and so they invent systems that approve of their dispositions.

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— Chapter 12 (p. 166)

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It left me there, the Compleat Young Girl, hell on wheels. I could build one-fifteenth of a log cabin, kill one-thirty-first of a tiger, kiss, do needlepoint, pass through an obstacle course, and come pretty close (in theory) to killing somebody with my bare hands. What did I have to worry about?

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— Chapter 14 (p. 187)

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