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All Quotes Collection
"It's not enough to have talent, you also have to be Hungarian."
79
"This war is like an actress who is getting old. It is less and less photogenic and more and more dangerous."
32
"I would say that the war correspondent gets more drinks, more girls, better pay, and greater freedom than the soldier, but at this stage of the game, having the freedom to choose his spot and being allowed to be a coward and not be executed for it is his torture."
39
"I hope to stay unemployed as a war photographer till the end of my life."
45
"I am a gambler. I decided to go in with Company E in the first wave."
35
"In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on."
47
"Relativism is not indifference; on the contrary, passionate indifference is necessary in order for you not to hear the voices that oppose your absolute decrees."
55
"You still stand watch, O human star, burning without a flicker, perfect flame, bright and resourceful spirit. Each of your rays a great idea - O torch which passes from hand to hand, from age to age, world without end."
53
"One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction."
41
"You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices."
40
"Relativism is neither a method of fighting, nor a method of creating, for both of these are uncompromising and at times even ruthless; rather, it is a method of cognition."
187
"Robots do not hold on to life. They can't. They have nothing to hold on with - no soul, no instinct. Grass has more will to live than they do."
45
"Robots of the world, you are ordered to exterminate the human race. Do not spare the men. Do not spare the women. Preserve only the factories, railroads, machines, mines, and raw materials. Destroy everything else. Then return to work. Work must not cease."
44
"Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere."
59
"There came into the world an unlimited abundance of everything people need. But people need everything except unlimited abundance."
54
"Wherever on this planet ideals of personal freedom and dignity apply, there you will find the cultural inheritance of England."
61
"My dear Miss Glory, Robots are not people. They are mechanically more perfect than we are, they have an astounding intellectual capacity, but they have no soul."
50
"Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end."
72
"Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time."
57
"Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word."
39
"Cognition is not fighting, but once someone knows a lot, he will have much to fight for, so much that he will be called a relativist because of it."
42
"Great God of the Ants, thou hast granted victory to thy servants. I appoint thee honorary Colonel."
53
"Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough."
58
"I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs."
44
"If dogs could talk, perhaps we would find it as hard to get along with them as we do with people."
64
"If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge."
50
"It was a great thing to be a human being. It was something tremendous. Suddenly I'm conscious of a million sensations buzzing in me like bees in a hive. Gentlemen, it was a great thing."
53
"People should be a little loony, Helena. That's the best thing about them."
54
"I certainly don't know if you could claim that every theft is wrong, but I'll prove to you that every theft is forbidden, by simply locking you up."
44
"Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings."
24
"If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend."
27
"Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down."
62
"A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet."
78
"Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends."
49
"Fame is only good for one thing - they will cash your check in a small town."
67
"Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor."
49
"I was eleven, then I was sixteen. Though no honors came my way, those were the lovely years."
62
"It is the want to know the end that makes us believe in God, or witchcraft, believe, at least, in something."
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