James Hogan Quotes

#1. Democracy and tyranny are not distant relatives. They're bedfellows."

-General John James
Commandant, USMC
December 11th, 2032

L. Douglas Hogan

#2. It turns out that information leaks between universes at the quantum level. We think it accounts for all kinds of phenomena, from what drives evolution to strange insights and mystical experiences through the ages. The machine was built as an attempt to investigate and amplify them.

James P. Hogan

#3. I have learned that feat is the mother of fearlessness, and the beginning of possibility. spoken by Paul Hogan and recounted.

James Orbinski

#4. Indications, of course, are not enough. Knowledge of the time must be combined with obedience -- what social scientists like to call time discipline. The indications are in effect commands, for responsiveness to these cues is imprinted on us and we ignore them at our peril.

David S. Landes

#5. We're so saturated with propaganda every way you look that we don't notice it. But when it isn't there, you notice.

James P. Hogan

#6. Success is like a fart - only your own smells nice.

James P. Hogan

#7. They didn't just want to oppress us: they wanted us to thank them for it."81

Anne Applebaum

#8. Sane, normal people don't need power trips. So the lunatics end up in charge of everything.

James P. Hogan

#9. The scents of these three, for instance, were so distinct, though they were clearly a family: the dark girl more savory and the golden-haired one more honeylike and they woman sweetest of all- I could not place what flower it was she recalled to me, or what sweetmeat.

Margo Lanagan

#10. The fact that some religious fanatics might support a theory doesn't invalidate it, anymore than the concurrence of UFO abduction cults invalidates the notion of extra-terrestrial life.

James P. Hogan

#11. Kids don't have ruts yet that adults have carved into their minds. They're born logical. Crooked thinking has to be taught.

James P. Hogan

#12. Even though we know sexual assault is still dramatically underreported, I think women are much more empowered today than they used to be.

Claire McCaskill

#13. There is a fundamental question we all have to face. How are we to live our lives; by what principles and moral values will we be guided and inspired?

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#14. When you're a stay-at-home mother you have to pretend it's really boring, but it's not. It's enriching and fulfilling, and an amazing experience. And then when you're a working mother you have to pretend that you feel guilty all day long.

Amy Poehler

#15. My success is not measured in money. I have no financial security, I have no savings account. I measure my success by asking myself if I'm telling a story that the world needs to hear, if I am educating people.

Aaron Huey

#16. I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

Jim Carrey

#17. Interference between universes at the quantum level means that information transfer takes place between them.

James P. Hogan

#18. When you drill down and see the forces that are shaping nations, you can see that the menu from which they choose is limited.

George Friedman

#19. Every book is a journey, a map into the complexities of the human mind and soul.

Elif Shafak

#20. A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.

Emil M. Cioran

#21. Pop music has been all but relegated to the remainder bin at MTV and VH1, where high-maintenance concoctions such as Paris Hilton, Flavor Flav, and Hulk Hogan's biohazard clan of bleached specimens provide endless hours of death-hastening diversion.

James Wolcott

#22. On Earth they've forgotten how to make everything except money. But what good is it, if there's nothing worthwhile left to buy?

James P. Hogan

#23. Nothing becomes funny by being labelled so.

William Strunk Jr.

#24. It doesn't matter if you try and try and try again, and fail. It does matter if you try and fail, and fail to try again.

Charles Kettering