"Starship Troopers" Quotes
A young soldier fights in an interstellar war against insect-like aliens and learns about the responsibilities of citizenship.
science fiction | 335 pages | Published in 1959
Quotes
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.
The noblest fate that a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.
The hardest part of teaching is to teach what you do not want to learn.
The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group that self-interest has to individual.
The difference between a welfare state and a totalitarian state is a matter of time.
The reason for the failure of the modern welfare state is that it is not a true state.
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement.
