Favorite Quotes

[DHBirr]

Concerning the reference to whether violence solves anything, one of Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" characters was in the habit of calling violence "the last resort of the incompetent." But H. Beam Piper had an answer to that:

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Of course, he was absolutely right, though not in the way he meant. Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.

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From the short story "A Slave is a Slave" in the book Empire.
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Big Brother is watching you.  And damn, you are so bloody BORING.