A Dark Age is not just a period in which people no longer know how to do things. The real key is that people no longer remember that certain things c…

- Jerry Pournelle

In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who wor…

- Jerry Pournelle

That which does not kill me, has made a grave tactical error.

- Jerry Pournelle

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets.

- Jerry Pournelle

In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control, and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucra…

- Jerry Pournelle

Freedom is not free. Free men are not equal. Equal men are not free.

- Jerry Pournelle

Freedom is not free. It is bought at a high price. It can be squandered cheaply.

- Jerry Pournelle

Bureaucracies are progressive. meaning they have a burning fear that someone. somewhere, is doing something without permission.

- Jerry Pournelle

We have for years been building a society in which everybody plunders everybody, and while we are weary of being plundered, we enjoy the plunder.

- Jerry Pournelle