211 quotes found
“The surveillance, he thought, essentially should be maintained. And, if possible, by me. I should always be watching, watching and figuring out, even if I never do anything about what I see; even i...”
“The tyranny of an object, he thought. It doesn't know I exist.”
“A man is an angel that has become deranged, Joe Fernwright thought. Once they all of them had been genuine angels, and at that time they had had a choice between good and evil, so it was easy, ea...”
“That's because you're a highly moral person. I'm not. I don't judge, not even myself.”
“If practicality and morality are polarized and you must choose, you must do what you think is right, rather than what you think is practical.”
“It isn't a brute instinct that keeps us restless and dissatisfied. I'll tell you what it is: it's the highest goal of man - the need to grow and advance . . . to find new things . . . to expand. To...”
“How can days and happenings and moments so good become so quickly ugly, and for no reason, for no real reason? Just - change.With nothing causing it.”
“Empathy, evidently, existed only within the human community, whereas intelligence to some degree could be found throughout every phylum and order including the arachnida. For one thing, the empathi...”
“Fat realized that one of two possibilities existed and only two; either Dr. Stone was totally insane not just insane but totally so or else in an artful, professional fashion he had gotten Fat to...”
“The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.”
“Let me sleep," he said, and shut the door; it clicked in her face and she felt animal terror - this was what she feared most in life: the clicking shut of a man's door in her face.Instantly, she ra...”
“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
“He sat watching the people go by, wondering how a thing of this sort could have come about, I must have let myself get mixed up in something horrible, he thought ... Probably she's the one who did ...”
“We didn't have sense enough to take care of it. Now it's torn. And the artist is dead.”
“Even if all life on our planet is destroyed, there must be other life somewhere which we know nothing of. It is impossible that ours is the only world; there must be world after world unseen by us,...”
“I've always told people that for each person there is a sentence--a series of words--which has the power to destroy him. When Fat told me about Leon Stone I realized (this came years after the firs...”
“You put on a bishop's robe and miter, he pondered, and walk around in that, and people bow and genuflect and like that, and try to kiss your ring, if not your ass, and pretty soon you're a bishop. ...”
“Yet, the dark fire waned: the life force oozed out of her, as he had so often witnessed before with other androids. The classic resignation. Mechanical, intellectual acceptance of that which a genu...”
“All his life he had controlled machines, bent nature and the forces of nature to man and man's needs. The human race had slowly evolved until it was in a position to operate things, run them as it ...”
“A persons authentic nature is a series of shifting, variegated planes that establish themselves as he relates to different people; it is created by and appears within the framework of his interpers...”
