Murray Leinster Quotes

You've got to do something!" insisted Fani. "I saw Father talking to them! He looked happy, and he never looks happy unless he's planning some skulduggery!

It isn’t illegal to buy an artist’s work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

I've never noticed that being nonsensical keeps things from happening. Don’t you ever read about politics?

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.

He’d gone to Walden in the hope of achievement. There, of course, he failed because in a free economy industrialists consider that freedom is the privilege to be stupid without penalty. In other than free economies, of course, stupidity is held to be the duty of administrators. But Hoddan now believed himself in the fascinating situation of having knowledge and abilities which were needed by people who knew their need.

Hoddan angrily suspected fate and chance of plain conspiracy against him.

A practical man can always make what he wants to do look like a noble sacrifice of personal inclinations to the welfare of the community.

“You are wonderful!” she said with conviction.
“I used to cherish that illusion myself,” said Hoddan.

As a young man he was considered promising. If he had been interested in such matters, he might have had a moderately successful career in politics, as politics was practiced in his nation. But he liked things. Real things.

And, just as she had responded to primitive prowess, so Ron reacted to feminine admiration by an enormously increased urge to accomplish.

He’d caused the First Native War on Mars, by taking advantage of the fact that at that time human law had not defined the killing of Martians as murder.

From the Near Rim to the farthest of occupied systems, planets circled their suns, and men lived on them, and every man took himself seriously and did not quite believe that the universe had existed before he was born or would long survive his loss.

It isn't reasonable!" insisted Holmes. "It doesn't make sense!" "The question," observed Burke, "isn't whether it makes sense, but whether it's fact.

It was totally unrealistic to think that because there had been wildly unlikely coincidences in the immediate past, that there would be more wildly unlikely ones turning up in orderly succession. Yet...

The unfamiliar is not necessarily unreasonable.