51 Quotes by Harry Harrison

Everyone has got their own ideas and they push them and say to hell with everyone else. That's the history of the human race. It got us on top, only now it is pushing us off. The thing is that people will put up with any kind of discomfort, and dying babies, and old age at thirty as long as it has always been that way. Try to get them to change and they fight you, even while they're dying, saying it was good enough for grandpa so it's good enough for me. Bango, dead.

I have been followed by enough police robots to know by now how indestructible they are. You can blow them up or knock them down and they keep coming after you; dragging themselves by one good finger and spouting saccharine morality all the while.

I am seventy-five years old and I reached this venerable state by staying out of trouble, keeping my mouth shut and not volunteering, just like I learned in the Army.

The principles we live by, in business and in social life, are the most important part of happiness.

I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

So maybe lightning will strike before lightning strikes me.

Growth expectations are improving around the world. There is further to go in this sell-off.

The world has been priced for bad news economically which just isn't coming through. The low yield environment might not be right.