Gordon R Dickson Quotes
- Each man is a tool in his own hands. Mankind is a tool in its own hands.
- The soldier loves action; the politician the sound of his own voice.
- Progress is made by the friction of opposites. The human creature climbs upward using first his right hand and then his left.
- When you pick up an inch of the present to move it, you also pick up several thousand years of history.
- A bureaucracy is like a living creature, with instincts of self-preservation and an urge to control all things for its own protection.
- The Spanish language has a number of ... poetically insulting curses to throw at your enemy; and the words 'su madre' are in most of…
- Intelligencecall it intellectual capacityalone can be helpless in a situation where knowledge or experience is required.
- The man who hints that you are a thief is almost sure to have a large, vulnerable area of dishonesty in his own inner self.
- An experts a man who knows a great deal about his subject. A scholars someone who knows all there is thats available to be known…
- An ethical man survives in a bureaucratic post only if he puts his ethics in second place.