51 Quotes by Harry Harrison

That was foolish of me,” she said coldly while she reloaded the gun. “I don’t need a gun. If I had to kill him, I could do it with my bare hands.” “I love you, too,” Jason smiled at her.

But doing something means that people must change, make an effort, use their minds, which is what most people do not like to do.

Skop screamed when they all looked at him, shouted it was all a trick, and had to be clubbed unconscious when he attacked the bowmen. Understanding had come to Pyrrus.

It is very hard to be a hypocrite if you aren’t trained for it.

There isn’t a person alive who has not been afraid at one time or another. It is only the brave man who can feel fear and still go forward.

Captain Chung Pei-fu of the Koumintang Army. A career soldier who had dedicated his life to war and who had never fought a battle.

A pushed-back cap had the crossed slide-rule symbol of ship’s computer man.

Liberation by destruction was on the way! We would free them even if we had to kill them all to do it!

Mankind invents cultures – and cultures invent myths to justify and explain their existence. Prominent among these are the myths and ceremonies of the rites of passage for boys. The passage from boyhood to manhood. This is the time when the boy is separated from his mother and the other women. In some primitive cultures the boys go and live with the men – and never see their mothers again.