# Flatlander

- Author: [Larry Niven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven.md)
- Quotes: 10
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander

## Quotes

> Chickens fly very well in low gravity.

p. 197 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/chickens-fly-very.md)

> Happiness is beautiful, all by itself. A happy person is beautiful, per se.

p. 33 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/happiness-is-beautiful.md)

Topics: [happiness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/happiness.md), [beauty](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/beauty.md)

> You question my dispassionate judgment? Men have died for less!

p. 133 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/you-question-my-dispassionate.md)

> So he was a little more callous than the rest of the world’s billions. But not much. Every voter had a bit of the organlegger in him. In voting the death penalty for so many crimes, the law makers had only bent to pressure from the voters. There was a spreading lack of respect for life, the evil side of transplant technology. The good side was a longer life for everyone. One condemned criminal could save a dozen deserving lives. Who could complain about that?

p. 34 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/so-he-was.md)

Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md), [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md)

> I see that you will never agree. I cannot help that. I can only read the evidence.

p. 43 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/i-see-that.md)

> New technologies create new customs, new laws, new ethics, new crimes.

p. 28 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/new-technologies-create.md)

Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md), [change](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/change.md)

> You should know by now, Hamilton. We bury everything. The sky is the enemy here. There’s meteors, radiation..spacecraft, for that matter.

p. 314 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/you-should-know.md)

> It’s damned embarrassing when you wake up with a girl and can’t remember her name.

p. 25 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/its-damned-embarrassing.md)

> I thought about it and got cold chills. Assassination is already a recognized branch of politics. If this got out—But that was the trouble; someone seemed to have thought of it already. If not, someone would. Someone always did.

p. 171 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/i-thought-about.md)

Topics: [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md)

> When nobody gets rich, they call that a recession.

p. 316 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/when-nobody-gets.md)

Topics: [money](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/money.md)