Sailing to Byzantium Quotes

“but even so they are nothing but servants, and artificial servants at that, lacking in any real awareness of human fragility or human ethical complexity. They must only be used as tools, not decision-makers. A society which delegates responsibilities of life and death to its servants will eventually find the servants’ hands at its throat.”
― Robert Silverberg, Sailing to Byzantium: Six Novellas

“What harsh sour souls they must have had, these frightening and frightened folk, creating for themselves in the lush fertile plains of India such a Supreme Soviet of a city!”
― Robert Silverberg, Sailing to Byzantium