Book: Starship troopers

The only chance to get the service is to a psychiatrist's identity that you can't understand what is said in the oath.

You were born to be guilty, otherwise you wouldn't be here!

Responsibility to society - not in front of my family or any group, requires imagination, because it requires a devotion to a certain idea, debt and other high values. If all of this is to push a person violently, his, pardon the expression, just to throw up, and it will be as empty as it was before.

When the rocket flies past the goal, it becomes a habit to look for another target... it does not distinguish enemy from friend, she's stupid.

On mixed ships, the last thing soldiers hear before the attack (maybe the last thing he ever hears in my life), is a woman's voice, wishing him luck. If you think that it means nothing, perhaps you are the exception to the human race.

Freedom has never been an inalienable right, it regularly has to buy with the blood of patriots or it disappears. Of all the so-called human rights human freedom is the most expensive, and the price for it will never come down. And it is a gift, it is not at all given.

The old adage "to Understand all is to forgive all" - is sheer nonsense. The more you understand some thing, the harder they curse.

If necessary, a man - a real man - he'll shoot his dog and won't be missed, who would do it for him.

War is not murder and violence, war is controlled violence for a purpose. The purpose of war is to support the decision of your government. Not to kill the enemy just to kill him, and make him do what you want from him. Not murder, but controlled and purposeful violence.

There are no dangerous weapons, there are dangerous people. We are trying to teach you to be dangerous to the enemy. Even without a knife. Deadly as long as you have at least one arm or leg, while you are still alive.

Guys the first one in our school has risen so high because soldiers do not have to stay alive (dying is just part of his work)... the point is how you died.

Happiness is the ability to sleep. Only in this. All the wealthy, unhappy people you know, swallow a sleeping pill. Soldier pills to anything. Give the soldier a bed and a time to fall upon it, and he'll be happy as a worm in the Apple, he sleeps!

You can give a child knowledge, but you cannot make him think.

There is an old tradition claiming that the most precious thing in life - freedom. It's not true. An absolute lie. Tragic misconception has led to the decline and the death of democracy in the XX century. All lush experiment failed, because people are encouraged to believe: it is enough to vote for something, and they'll get it: Without suffering, sweat and tears. Freedom in itself doesn't mean anything. Because all you have to pay. Even the breath ability we buy the cost of the effort and pain of the first breath.