1951 Quotes

“They were scientists enough to admit that they were wrong.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do, if you don't keep doing it, the jungle will grow over you. Black or white, you've got to fight it every minute of the day.”
― Katharine Hepburn, The Making of The African Queen Or How I went to Africa with Bogart, Bacall and Huston and almost lost my mind

“That's how the world is arranged: they can take anyone's freedom from him, without a qualm. If we want to take back the freedom which is our birthright—they make us pay with our lives and the lives of all whom we meet on the way.
They can do anything, but we cannot. That's why they are stronger than we.”
― Georgi Tenno, The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Books V-VII

“A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic”
― E.B. White

“It's out of fashion in these decaying times to be a scholar.”
― Isaac Asimov, Foundation

“You're an idealist. The idealists are always the revolutionaries, the cat's paws. Then the realists consolidate, compromise and liquidate the opposition.”
― Jack Vance, The Augmented Agent and Other Stories