The best Quotes from Starship Troopers

Nothing of value is free. Even the breath of life is purchased at birth only through gasping effort and pain. The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion... and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself - ultimate cost for perfect value.

Dizzy: "My mother always told me that violence doesn't solve anything."
Jean Rasczak: "Really? I wonder what the city founders of Hiroshima would have to say about that."
Carmen: "They wouldn't say anything. Hiroshima was destroyed."
Jean Rasczak: "Correct. Naked force has resolved more conflicts throughout history than any other factor. The contrary opinion, that violence doesn't solve anything, is wishful thinking at its worst. People who forget that always die."

I need a corporal. You're it, until you're dead or I find someone better.

Someone asked me once if I knew the difference between a civilian and a citizen. I know now. A citizen has the courage to make the safety of the human race their personal responsibility. Dizzy was my friend. She was a soldier. But most important, she was a citizen of the Federation.

This is for all you new people. I have only one rule. Everybody fights, no one quits. If you don't do your job, I'll kill you myself! Welcome to the Roughnecks!

Funny how they always want to be friends after they rip your guts out.

They sucked his brains out.

I have a very large forehead. I have a pronounced skull. Maybe producers think that there is a lot going on up in there.

It's good to have a lot of once-in-a-lifetimes in your lifetime. If you get the chance to skydive, go skydiving! If you're offered a part in a weird Shakespeare play in San Diego, slap on some tights and rock out some iambic pentameter.

I'm excited to be writing a book of the observations and stories of my life.

Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life to the fullest and feel most fortunate to be working with wonderful people in the business I love.

Here's what I can say: When you're young, when you're in elementary school or when you're in highschool, it's important to try and fit in and be accepted and to be part of the average. Everyone does it, that's the way it goes. But let me assure you, if you're getting bullied and you're feeling like you are on the outskirts, that it gets better. Because when you're getting older you find, that people are actually drawn towards individuals with different points of view, who are proud of who they are and who make interesting and different and unique choices for them.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy!

Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.

Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Incoming friendly fire! Dodge - or don't. Your call.

Dispense peace with the ultimate weaponry!

Return, refit, and redeploy to purge the stain of this failure with the peroxide of victory.

How about a nice cup of liber-tea?

Injury? What injury??

Say hello to democracy!

Freedom never sleeps!

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.

Don't do drugs, don't have unprotected sex, don't be violent... leave that to me.

Who overcomes
By force, hath overcome but half his foe.