# Quote — Theodore Sturgeon, Killdozer!

> He had been released with alacrity from the office because of his propensity for small office politics. It was a game he still played, and completely aside from his boiled-looking red face and his slightly womanish walk, he was out of place in the field, for boot-licking and back-stabbing accomplish even less out on the field than they do in an office.

- Author: [Theodore Sturgeon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon.md)
- Book: [Killdozer!](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/killdozer.md)
- Page: 170
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Sturgeon#Killdozer!_(1944)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/killdozer/he-had-been

## More from this book

> In its shelter they developed a weapon. What is was we shall never know, and our race will live—or we shall know, and our race will perish as theirs perished.

p. 165 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/theodore-sturgeon/killdozer/in-its-shelter.md)