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The Puppet Masters QUOTES

The Puppet Masters QUOTES

1 " Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was a specialist in exotic biologies--the same Vargas who was on the Second Venus Expedition. He told me what had happened and I looked at the gibbons, meantime rearranging my prejudices. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Puppet Masters

2 " Time was when I was immune to emotional shocks. But as I get older, I don't get tougher; I get softer. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Puppet Masters

3 " If I had had any sense, I'd have quit and taken a working job. The only trouble with that would be that I wouldn't have been working for the Old Man any longer. That made the difference. Not that he was a soft boss. He was quite capable of saying, "Boys, we need to fertilize this oak tree. Just jump in that hole at its base and I'll cover you up." We'd have done it. Any of us would. And the Old Man would bury us alive, too, if he thought that there was as much as a 53 percent probability that it was the Tree of Liberty he was nourishing. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Puppet Masters

4 " The problem with dictatorships—as I read somewhere recently—and with poisonous ideologies, too, is that they are like sharks. They must keep moving forward or die. What caused their aggression is not what you did. It's who they are. "

― Robert A. Heinlein , The Puppet Masters