Astounding Science Fiction Stories Quotes

“A society based upon private endeavor is as jealous of a vacuum as is Mother Nature. Give a desire that can be filled profitably, and the means can somehow be found to realize it.”
― Various, Astounding Science Fiction Stories: An Anthology of 350 Scifi Stories Volume 2

“A man without personality is bound to reflect the personality of others.”
― Various, Astounding Science Fiction Stories: An Anthology of 350 Scifi Stories Volume 2

“it's a well-known fact that neurotics seek out low company to compensate for their guilt-feelings.”
― Various, Astounding Science Fiction Stories: An Anthology of 350 Scifi Stories Volume 2

“When you cease to be fearful of Authority, you become Authority. Neither Baker or Wily, or any of the members of Wily's lock-step staff were Authority. Rather, they all gave obeisance to the intangible Authority of Science, and stood together as self-appointed vicars of that Authority, demanding penance for the slightest blasphemy against it. And each one stood in living terror of such censure. The same ghost haunted the halls of Government. The smallest civil servant, in his meanest incivility, could invoke the same reverence for that unseen mantle of Authority that rested, however falsely, on his thin shoulders. The ghost existed in but one place, the minds of the victims of the Plague.”
― Various, Astounding Science Fiction Stories: An Anthology of 350 Scifi Stories Volume 2