The great trouble with you Americans is that you are still under the influence of that second-rate – shall I say third-rate? – mind, Karl Marx.
We have learned now that we cannot regard this planet as being fenced in and a secure abiding place for Man we can never anticipate the unseen good or evil that may come upon us suddenly out of space.
IBM is helping to greatly advance and expedite quality sampling while providing our project investigators peace of mind that the information they are gathering is securely stored and protected.
If anything is possible, then nothing is interesting.
Fools make researches and wise men exploit them – that is our earthly way of dealing with the question, and we thank Heaven for an assumed abundance of financially impotent and sufficiently ingenious fools.
A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,“Was there ever such a world?”
Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.
Strength is the outcome of need.
The State’s your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies thatby word or deed.
This little upset across the water doesn’t mean anything. Threatened men live long and threatened wars never occur.
You are not mechanics, you are warriors. You have been trained, not to think, but to do.
I don’t suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don’t understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be.
Dragging out life to the last possible second is not living to the best effect. The nearer the bone, the sweeter the meat. The best of life, Passworthy, lies nearest to the edge of death.
I don’t think you fully appreciate the importance of Illusion in life, the Essential Nature of Lies and Deception of the body politic.
I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply.
When the mind grapples with a great and intricate problem, it makes its advances step by step, with but little realization of the gains it has made, until suddenly, with an effect of abrupt illumination, it realizes its victory.
We were making the future and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!
The true objection to slavery is not that it is unjust to the inferior but that it corrupts the superior.
The too perfect security of the Upper-worlders had led them to a slow movement of degeneration, a general dwindling in size, strength, and intelligence.
The third peculiarity of aerial warfare was that it was at once enormously destructive and entirely indecisive.