H. Beam Piper citáty

Henry Beam Piper byl americký spisovatel vědeckofantastické literatury. Psal pod jménem „H. Beam Piper“. Některé zdroje mu přisuzují jméno Horace Beam Piper. Na jeho náhrobním kameni je jméno Henry Beam Piper. V listopadu 1964 spáchal ve Williamsportu v Pensylvánii sebevraždu, přesné datum úmrtí je tak nejasné. Tělo bylo podle různých zdrojů nalezeno mezi 9. a 11. listopadem. Poslední záznam v jeho diáři byl z 5. listopadu 1964. Wikipedia  

✵ 23. březen 1904 – 4. listopad 1964
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“Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.”

A Slave is a Slave (1962)
Kontext: Oh, he won't think of it in those terms. He'll be preventing me from sabotaging the Emancipation. He doesn't want to wait three generations; he wants to free them at once. Everything has to be at once for six-month-old puppies, six-year-old children, and reformers of any age.

“Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.”

A Slave is a Slave (1962)
Kontext: Count Erskyll said nothing for a moment. He was opposed to the use of force. Force, he believed, was the last resort of incompetence; he had said so frequently enough since this operation had begun. Of course, he was absolutely right, though not in the way he meant. Only the incompetent wait until the last extremity to use force, and by then, it is usually too late to use anything, even prayer.