22 Quotes by James P. Hogan

Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.

Several large, artificial constructions are approaching us, ZORAC announced after a short pause. The designs are not familiar, but they are obviously the products of intelligence. Implications: we have been intercepted deliberately by a means unknown, for a purpose unknown, and transferred to a place unknown by a form of intelligence unknown. Apart from the unknowns, everything is obvious.

Success is like a fart – only your own smells nice.

Sane, normal people don’t need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

On Earth they’ve forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there’s nothing worthwhile left to buy?

The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn’t invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

Kids don’t have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They’re born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

People don’t like seeing being afraid to express an opinion and seeing their neighbors dragged away to prison camps. You’d think that would be obvious enough, wouldn’t you? But governments – here, anyway – have always seemed unable grasp it. That’s what happens when you can’t see further than short-term expediency.