David Gerrold Quotations

Adolescence is that time in your life when you discover your ability to be depressed.

Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.

Most people say they want justice, but they don't really want justice. They want revenge. They want to see the pain spread around equally.

The jingling of a fat purse always commands the world.

You can tell a lot about a civilization by the quality of the people found in its jails.

Only people who haven't lived through a war advocate it so eagerly.

Christianity has held back any further advances in human consciousness for the past thousand years. And for the past century it's been in direct conflict with its illegitimate offspring, Communism (again with a capital C). Both ask the individual to sacrifice his self-interest to the higher goals of the organization. (Which is okay by me as long as it's voluntary; but as soon as either becomes too big—and takes on that damned capital C—they stop asking for cooperation and start demanding it.) Any higher states of human enlightenment have been sacrificed between these two monoliths.

Incompetency fed on itself.

We have this sacred cow in our society that what the majority of people want is right—but is it? Our populace can't really be informed, not the majority of them—most people vote the way they have been manipulated and by the way they have responded to that manipulation—they are working out their own patterns of wishful thinking on the social environment in which they live.

You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.