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Economics is on the side of humanity now.
Empire novels (1950)
It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.
Empire novels (1950)
Truth is a discredited commodity among diplomats.
Empire novels (1950)
No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth.
Empire novels (1950)
Trantor could win even such a war, but perhaps not without paying a price that would make victory only a pleasanter name for defeat.
Empire novels (1950)
“You make interstellar politics sound a very dirty game.”
“It is, but disapproving of dirt doesn’t remove it.”
Empire novels (1950)
That is the most stupid thing yet. I tell you that I could despair of human intelligence when I see what can exist in men’s minds.
Empire novels (1950)
Junz found revulsion growing strong within him. A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!
Empire novels (1950)
First, there must be an end to war and national rivalry and only then could one turn to the internal miseries that, after all, had external conflict as their chief cause.
Empire novels (1950)
I see your vile implication. My only explanation for it is that you are criminally insane.
Empire novels (1950)
To the rest of the Galaxy, if they are aware of us at all, Earth is but a pebble in the sky. To us it is home, and all the home we know.
Empire novels (1950)
The same man who could not find it in his conscience to curb his curiosity into the nuclear studies that might someday kill half of Earth would risk his life to save that of an unimportant fellow man.
Empire novels (1950)
An unpleasant nest of nasty, materialistic and aggressive people, careless of the rights of others, imperfectly democratic at home though quick to see the minor slaveries of others, and greedy without end.
Empire novels (1950)
There can never be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corrdiors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save. There never was a man so helpless as one who cannot remember.
Empire novels (1950)
The stars, like dust, encircle me
In living mists of light;
And all of space I seem to see
In one vast burst of sight.
Empire novels (1950)
Gillbret said, “Statistics show that one out of three stars has a planetary system.”
Biron nodded. It was a well-worn statistic. Every child was taught that in elementary Galactography.
Empire novels (1950)
Well, it was healthy to miss once in a while. It kept self-confidence balanced at a point safely short of arrogance.
Empire novels (1950)
“Then why did you run? A man who runs needs no other accusation.”
“Is that so? Really?” cried Steen. “Well, I would run out of a burning building even if I had not set the fire myself.”
Empire novels (1950)
Nonsense. You are a military man and should know better. If there is one science into which man has probed continuously and successfully, it is that of military technology. No potential weapon would remain unrealized for ten thousand years.
Empire novels (1950)
“At least try to see my motives. Granted that I was foolish—criminally foolish—can’t you understand? Can’t you try not to hate me?”
She said softly, “I have tried not to love you and, as you see, I have failed.”
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