Quotes – Page 16

Here you can find a list of quotes. You can click on a quote to view more details.

You do not know what freedom is. You have never lived but in swarms, and you know no way of life but to be constantly forced, in even the smallest things, to bend your wills to those of others or, which is equally vile, to spend your days struggling to force others to bend their wills to yours. Where is any possible freedom there? Freedom is nothing if it is not to live as you wish. Exactly as you wish.

Reference:

Page 170/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

Society defines what constitutes an offense

Reference:

Page 187/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

Hermaphrodite

Reference:

Page 224/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

Twenty thousand years, is just overnight when compared to a planetary lifetime.

Reference:

Page 131/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

I do not think it would be possible for human beings to fail to understand the importance of retaining the very factors that are keeping them alive.

Reference:

Page 131/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

No one can encompass all of knowledge

Reference:

Page 113/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

No human language has been devised with hermaphroditism in mind.

Reference:

Page 224/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

I will tell you a story that may not interest you, but that interests me.

Reference:

Page 169/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

There are words one does not say. Do you say every word you know under all circumstances?

Reference:

Page 91/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

There are always individuals who pit their minds against the general modes of thought and who are arrogant enough to feel that they alone are right and that the many are wrong.

Reference:

Page 92/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

Reference:

Page 57/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth

We are anxious to do what is right; not necessary what seems right to us, but what is right, objectively

Reference:

Page 44/348

Author:

Isaac Asimov

Book:

Foundation and Earth