Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time."
"Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.
Tags: time
All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.
Isaac AsimovTags: politics
It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research.
Isaac AsimovTags: politics
It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?
Isaac AsimovTags: perspective philosophers common-sense
Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict—its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by force. And each time, frustratingly enough, force never really settled the problem. Instead, it persisted through a series of conflicts, then vanished of itself—what's the expression—ah, yes, 'not with a bang, but a whimper,' as the economic and social environment changed. And then, new problems, and a new series of wars.
Isaac AsimovThere is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
Isaac AsimovTags: politics
Every man's position on Earth is restricted to the distance he can walk.'
-- "The Last Trump
You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself.
Isaac AsimovIt is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold.
Isaac AsimovTags: religion-science
Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.
Isaac AsimovTags: government
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