"Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was……" — H. Beam Piper
"Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved."
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9 Quotes by H. Beam Piper
H. Beam Piper has 9 quotes on this site.
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Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to…
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Sanity, it would seem, was a dangerously contagious disease.
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Vengeance is a strange human motivation --- it can drive a man to do things which he neither would nor…
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I had a lot of other ideas, now and then, but every time I took a second look at one,…
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English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any…
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English is the product of a Saxon warrior trying to make a date with an Angle bar-maid, and as such…
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I like it where it gets dark at night, and if you want noise, you have to make it yourself.
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Take a drink because you pity yourself, and then the drink pities you and has a drink, and then two…
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