Harlan Ellison Quotes

They have the troops; we only have the arguments.

The general principle is that the victors don't look at themselves or concede anything. The defeated typically have to, except when it's beneficial to the powerful for them not to.

He thought about how it might be to be, say, a fox confronted with an angry sheep. A sheep moreover, that could afford to employ wolves.

I am from the class that has, in a sense, benefited from the status quo, but everyone still gets victimized.

If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless.

I have mended fences with both my sisters. But do I have their families on my side? Not easily. My one sister, Florence, has two lawyers in the family and two doctors. Of course, I couldn't win that battle.

Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

Debating clubs among boys are very useful, not only as affording pleasant meetings and interesting discussions, but also as serving for training grounds for developing the knowledge and the qualities that are needed in public life.

Unfortunately, I think we've probably all had the experience that if we're in a relationship where one of the partners is doing it 'my' way, that relationship is not going to survive.

Unfortunately, in collective bargaining one party or the other too often tries to gain an advantage - a bargain, like buying something in a store for less than it is worth.

As long as there is a great disparity of power which makes negotiations seem to be unnecessary to one side, that causes them to believe that they can accomplish their purposes without it.

When I get into an argument I generally could get something out of Shakespeare which I could put on an opponent to his disadvantage. He has helped me out of many a tight place.

Silence the voices of some in order to hear the voices of others. Sometimes there is no other way.

It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

You [a country] cannot be rich, successful and powerful and still be loved, particularly be those who have little success, wealth or power.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.

… adjudged not to him who had the truth on his side, but by the last word in the dispute.

Oppression is the essence of power.

If this phrase of “the balance of power” is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never be wanting …

What I do know from my life is the phenomenon of saying, 'This is too small a thing to argue about', but then nevertheless finding oneself in that argument.

It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.

Imperialist exploitation and an unjust international economic order are a cause of war.

I was on the debate team.

It's nice to hit and not be hit back.

We had an argument, and he told me to be home at midnight, and I said no. And so when I did come home, the door was locked. And I had gotten a set of luggage for graduation that day, and it was on the front porch, packed. He thought that he was going to prove a point and I was going to say, 'Oh, I'm sorry, Daddy, I'm sorry'.