Author of quotes: Robert Sheckley. Page 4

Try to be realistic. We have created a Utopia for people and not for saints who don't need it. We have to reckon with the imperfections of human nature, and not to pretend they don't exist. In our view, the police apparatus and the legal system tend to create an atmosphere that breeds crime and the admissibility of other crimes. Believe me, it is better not to admit the possibility of committing crimes at all. The vast majority of people will support this view.

Old women and children! Here are the guardians of scarce wisdom possessed by the people.

In his youth, living the dream of a future and old age must give up her way.

... I saw how people were made one, two, three States. And then die in the sand, trying to get a fourth.

For all of us, inhabitants of the Earth, is found this weakness: grab that no give, regardless of whether we need or don't need. Here and making trouble!

The first thousand years will be hard, then get used to it.

The main thing in life that you want to considered the main.

While the first half of your wishes will come true, the second will be doubled.

It is easier to understand the Universe than yourself.

You are the luckiest winner of the picture of my hand - sarcastically said Kent. - Turn it up and hang it in the Museum of modern art.

The nature of the world is evident, but unprovable.

- Sometimes I think there is only I, ' said Archie, and everything else I can only dream of.
- Yes, of course, ' agreed Jane. - Sometimes I think also.
But I could dream that you say it.
- Anyway, it's unprovable.

If it's Mars? And why not? Why should his previous version should be viable and realistic this new? Isn't this the sin of pride, intellectual arrogance to demand that the universe conform to your idea of her? Why Mars had to be just the way it is paint the inhabitants of the Earth?

In my world, even this conversation that we're with you, would have been unthinkable. In my world, the real world Mars is just a dead rock covered with sand.
Your world is just awful! - exclaimed will. - It should be run.
- I thought about it.