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Alfred Bester Quotes

1913–1987 United States

Alfred Bester (December 18, 1913 – September 30, 1987) was an American science fiction author, TV and radio scriptwriter, magazine editor and scripter for comic strips and comic books.

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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

The Stars My Destination (1956)

Millions for defense, but not one cent for survival.

The Stars My Destination (1956)

We always do what’s natural, only sometimes we shouldn’t do it.

The Stars My Destination (1956)

The mind is the reality. You are what you think.

The Demolished Man (1953)

Revenge is for dreams...never for reality.

The Stars My Destination (1956)

Yes, no matter how we defend ourselves against the outside we’re always licked by something from the inside. There’s no defense against betrayal, and we all betray ourselves.

The Stars My Destination (1956)

This is my first satellite, and d’you know what it's taught me? There’s just one component in any spacecraft that’s guaranteed to give trouble all the time: scientists!

Something Up There Likes Me (1973)

He awoke. He was alive. He wasted no time on prayer or thanks but continued the business of survival.

The Stars My Destination (1956)

Now, these men weren’t idiots. They were geniuses who paid a high price for their genius because the rest of their thinking was other-world. A genius is someone who travels to truth by an unexpected path. Unfortunately, unexpected paths lead to disaster in everyday life.

The Men Who Murdered Mohammed (1958)

“Damn you!" Dagenham raged, “Don’t you realize that you can’t trust people? They don’t know enough for their own good.”
“Then let them learn or die. We’re all in this together. Let’s live or die together.”

The Stars My Destination (1956)

Powell repressed the wave of exasperation that rose up in him. It was not exasperation with Chooka. It was anger for the relentless force of evolution that insisted on endowing man with increased powers without removing the vestigial vices that prevented him from using them.

The Demolished Man (1953)

Alan Scott: I shall shed my light over dark evil.
For the dark things cannot stand the light,
The light of the Green Lantern!

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Alfred Bester (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.