Stranger In A Strange Land Quotes

Contemplation must bring forth right action in order to permit further growth.

I’ve never understood how God could expect His creatures to pick the one true religion by faith-it strikes me as a sloppy way to run a universe.

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes…

ONCE UPON A TIME when the world was young there was a Martian named Smith.Valentine Michael Smith was as real as taxes but he was a race of one.

You are a stranger in a strange land. As an evolved person living in a relatively unevolved world, you are constantly subjected to a bombardment of seemingly endless negative vibrations emanating from those around you.

Christ was crucified for preaching without a police permit

As a colored woman I might enter Washington any night, stranger in a strange land, and walk miles without finding a place to lay my head

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Democracy is a poor system of government at best; the only thing that can honestly be said in its favor is that it is eight times as good as any other method the human race has ever tried.

Once upon a time there was a Martian named Valentine Michael Smith.

My dear, I used to think I was serving humanity . . . and I pleasured in the thought. Then I discovered that humanity does not want to be served; on the contrary it resents any attempt to serve it. So now I do what pleases myself.

Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, for there are plenty of others.

Like every living thing its prime characteristic is a blind, unreasoned instinct to survive.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Democracy’s worst fault is that its leaders are likely to reflect the faults and virtues of their constituents.