“There can be no doubt that this resistance to killing one’s fellow man is there and that it exists as a result of a powerful combination of instinctive, rational, environmental, hereditary, cultural, and social factors. It is there, it is strong, and it gives us cause to believe that there just may be hope for mankind after all.”
― On Killing
― On Killing
“If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred, and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate. It is therefore realized on all sides that however ofter Persia, or Egypt, or Java, or Ceylon may change hands, the main frontiers must never be crossed by anything except bombs.”
― 1984
― 1984
“You see, a conflict always begins with an issue - a difference of opinion, an argument. But by the time it turns into a war, the issue doesn't matter anymore, because now it's about one thing and one thing only: how much each side hates the other.”
― Unwind
― Unwind
“A hundred failures would not matter, when one single success could change the destiny of the world.”
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
“All that had gone before was not a thousandth of what was yet to come; the story of this star had barely begun.”
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
― 2001: A Space Odyssey
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