Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively, just how efficient a total communism can be when used by a people actually adapted to it by evolution; the Bug commisars didn't care any more about expending soldiers than we cared about expending ammo. Perhaps we could have figured this out about the Bugs by noting the grief the Chinese Hegemony gave the Russo-Anglo-American Alliance; however the trouble with 'lessons from history' is that we usually read them best after falling flat on our chins.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

The two highest achievements of the human mind are the twin concepts of "loyalty" and "duty". Whenever these twin concepts fall into disrepute, get out of there fast! You may possibly save yourself, but it is too late to save that society. It is doomed.

And suddenly I knew I was people and could not stop laughing.

But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, and the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well.