# Quote — Larry Niven, Flatlander

> Chickens fly very well in low gravity.

- Author: [Larry Niven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven.md)
- Book: [Flatlander](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander.md)
- Page: 197
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Larry_Niven#Flatlander_(1995)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/flatlander/chickens-fly-very

## More from this book

> 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)