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“The Gods do not protect fools. Fools are protected by more capable fools.”

Larry Niven Ringworld series

Source: Ringworld (1970), p. 96

God , Fools

“Drugs: “There’s no way to keep them from getting in. Anyone who wants drugs can get them. We make arrests where we can, and so what? Me, I’m betting on Darwin.”
“How do you mean?”
“The next generation won’t use drugs because they’ll be descended from people who had better sense.””

Larry Niven book Flash Crowd

Flash Crowd, section 9, in Three Trips in Time and Space (1973), edited by Robert Silverberg, p. 77

People , Way , Sense

“Anything you don't understand is dangerous until you do understand it.”

Larry Niven book Flatlander

"Flatlander" (1967), first published in If (March 1967)

Understanding

““Do you play games of chance?”
“Emphatically yes. The process of living is a game of chance. To avoid chance is insanity.””

Larry Niven

There Is a Tide (p. 206)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

Game , Chance

“I asked him, “Do you know the difference between nude and naked?”
He shook his head.
“Nude is artistic. Naked is defenseless.””

Larry Niven

Cloak of Anarchy (p. 124)
Short fiction, Tales of Known Space (1975)

“Do you like strange places and faraway people—or vice versa?”

Larry Niven

“Both.”
Rammer (p. 4)
Short fiction, A Hole in Space (1974)

People

“Do you know what it's like to be suddenly poor and not know how to live poor?”

Larry Niven book A Relic of the Empire

Source: Short fiction, Neutron Star (1968), A Relic of the Empire (p. 43)

“Infantry, which means killing on foot and doesn’t have anything to do with children.”

Larry Niven book N-Space

Short fiction, N-Space (1990)
Source: Madness Has Its Place (p. 568)

Children

“Casual murder, casual suicide, casual crime. Why not? If alternate universes are a reality, then cause and effect are an illusion. The law of averages is a fraud. You can do anything, and one of you will, or did.”

Larry Niven book All the Myriad Ways

All the Myriad Ways (p. 79)
Short fiction, N-Space (1990)

Universe , Law , Fraud , Reality