Murray Leinster: Quotes about people

Murray Leinster was Novelist, short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on people.
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“When in the course of human events somebody does something that puts somebody else to the trouble of adjusting the numb routine of his life, the adjustee is resentful. The richer he is and the more satisfactory he considers his life, the more resentful he is at any change, however minute. And of all the changes which offend people, changes which require them to think are most disliked.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 1

“Most men develop convictions about the cosmos and such beliefs come in two varieties. One kind is a conviction that the cosmos does not make sense. That it exists by chance and changes by chance and human beings do not matter. This view produces a fine complacency. The other kind is a belief that the cosmos does make sense, and was designed with the idea that people were going to live in it, and that what they do and what happens to them is important. This theory seems to be depressing.”

Murray Leinster

Source: Time Tunnel (1964), Chapter 1 (p. 8).

“He’d gone to Walden in the hope of achievement. There, of course, he failed because in a free economy industrialists consider that freedom is the privilege to be stupid without penalty. In other than free economies, of course, stupidity is held to be the duty of administrators. But Hoddan now believed himself in the fascinating situation of having knowledge and abilities which were needed by people who knew their need.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 10

“There was a beautiful row. You’ve really scared people, Hoddan! You deserve well of the republic! Every government and every person needs to be thoroughly terrified occasionally. It limbers up the brain.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 2

“There are some people so stupid you have to show them everything. I didn’t realize that there are people so stupid you can’t show them anything.”

Murray Leinster book The Pirates of Zan

Source: The Pirates of Zan (1959), Chapter 1

“The secret of getting along with people is that of postponing quarrels.”

Murray Leinster

(p. 115 in The Hugo Winners vol. 1 edited by Isaac Asimov).
Short fiction, Exploration Team (1956)