
“How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.”
Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987), p. 164 (1987 Putnam edition; ISBN 9780399132674
Source: Lords and Ladies
“How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.”
Source: To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987), p. 164 (1987 Putnam edition; ISBN 9780399132674
Source: Design for a Brain: The Origin of Adaptive Behavior (1952), p. 238
The Captive Mind (1953)
Context: The pressure of an all-powerful totalitarian state creates an emotional tension in its citizens that determines their acts. When people are divided into "loyalists" and "criminals" a premium is placed on every type of conformist, coward, and hireling; whereas among the "criminals" one finds a singularly high percentage of people who are direct, sincere, and true to themselves.
The Expanding Universe. (1933) Ch. IV The Universe and the Atom
2010s, 2016, June, Speech about the Orlando Shooting (June 13, 2016)
Source: Tomorrow Is Now (1963), pp. 119–120
Context: We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity. In the final analysis, a democratic government represents the sum total of the courage and the integrity of its individuals. It cannot be better than they are. … In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly.