Quotes from The Near East — Isaac Asimov
1920–1992 United States
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Religion is more conservative than any other aspect of human life.
The Near East (1968)
[N]o matter how outrageous a lie may be, it will be accepted if stated loudly enough and often enough.
The Near East (1968)
It is by the Imperial Capital that contemporaries (and posterity, too) judge an Empire, and its magnificence impresses them mightily and leads them to judge the Emperor a great man and hero, even though it may all be based on robbery, and though the provinces of the Empire may be sunk in misery.
The Near East (1968)
We can hope that the ways of peace will attract the Arabic nations, for their territory and opportunities are broad enough for immeasurable advance, if the energies vented in spleen, are turned instead to a modernisation of the technology, a restoration of the soil, and a renovation of the economic, social, and political structure of those great and venerable lands.
The Near East (1968)