Gary Gygax Quotes

Do you know anything on earth which has not a dangerous side if it is mishandled and exaggerated?

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use.

Poetry can cause irreparable harm when misapplied

All extremes are bad. All that is good and useful, if carried to extremes, may become-and beyond a certain limit is bound to become-bad and injurious.

Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.

You can't stamp on people and not get hurt in return.

There is a mistaken idea, ancient but still with us, that an overdose of anything from fornication to hot chocolate will teach restraint by the very results of its abuse.

Broken people misuse their power while people who have values don't use their powers in a way that harms.

People make filthy things with the freedom they regained.

Power, carried to extremes, is always liable to reaction.

I think it's very important, and I think that what young people will learn from my experience is that even presidents have to do that and there are consequences when you don't. But I also think that there will be a box score, and there will be that one negative, and then there will be the hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times when the record will show that I did not abuse my authority as president, that I was truthful with the American people.

Almost as many inhumanities are committed in the name of love as in the name of religion.

In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other.

A lot of people that are in the disease of drinking and using can be caught up on the denial aspect of it. I don't have a problem with that. I am very sensitive. I can just feel when things are getting out of control and I go, 'Oh, you have to deal with this. Because you can die.' I've always sort of had that.

We've all made bad decisions, but they haven't always been resulting in the deaths of innocent people.

Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike ...We wizards have mistreated and abused our fellows for too long, and we are now reaping our reward.

Who hastens a glutton choakes him.

Being a conservative can never be about simply an attitude. Being a conservative cannot simply be about how long you're willing to scream, how angry you're willing to be or how many names you're willing to call people. That is not conservative.

We do the best we can," she said softly, looking inward. "And punish ourselves for it. I've tried to make my choices with the idea that I've made those choices for the greatest good. Sometimes someone suffers in the process, but I made the decision for the right reason. That should count for something, shouldn't it?

You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.

I do not like the way people use the more and more magnificent fruits of technology to their filthy deeds.

I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and then make the choice to share it with other people. Maybe that is what makes people "participate.

It's easy to explain away evil. We have a free choice, and our greatest blessing is also our greatest curse, because I don't always make good choices. Other people make bad choices. I make bad choices. And sometimes we hurt other people. Sometimes intentionally, sometimes unintentionally.