Quotes from The Long Way Home — Poul Anderson
1926–2001 United States
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For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death.
The Long Way Home (1955)
Do you think maybe I want power for myself? That’s for fools who want to command other fools.
The Long Way Home (1955)
It sounds rather silly, doesn’t it? One little man thinking he can change history all by his lonesome. A lot of trouble has been caused by that delusion.
The Long Way Home (1955)
I am a peaceful man, captain. I rely more on my cerebral cortex than my guns.
The Long Way Home (1955)
Chanthavar said that the Egyptian pyramids, part of the Sphinx, traces of buried cities, a couple of ruined dams in America and Russia, some hydrogen-bomb craters, were still around, otherwise nothing earlier than the Thirty-fifth century. Time went on, relentlessly, and one by one the proud works of man were lost.
The Long Way Home (1955)
It isn’t possible to have equality. It’s been tried again and again in history, giving everybody a vote, and it’s always failed—always, in a few generations, the worse politicians drove out the better. Because by definition, half the people always have below-average intelligence; and the average is not high.
The Long Way Home (1955)