Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue hapiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and fewer people to enjoy this more and more. Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. And remember this, no matter how well off the bottom layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always dispossessed in comparison with the apex.
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ISAAC ASIMOV Mr Baley", said Quemot, "you can't treat human emotions as though they were built about a positronic... ISAAC ASIMOV Carbon is the basis of human life and iron of robot life. It becomes easy to speak of C/Fe when you ... ISAAC ASIMOV History was interesting to the extent that it was catastrophic and, while that might make absorbing ... ISAAC ASIMOV I would argue that a truly developed country would be beyond Presidents and Kings. In a world with s... ISAAC ASIMOV Any technological advance can be dangerous. Fire was dangerous from the start, and so (even more so)... ISAAC ASIMOV Imagine that. Terrible, terrible, the way we have all bent to the yoke; the affection we have for th... ISAAC ASIMOV It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No... ISAAC ASIMOV violence is the last resource of incompetence ISAAC ASIMOV All roads lead to Trantor, and that is where all stars end. ISAAC ASIMOV Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.” -I... ISAAC ASIMOV Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, si... ISAAC ASIMOV A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of consi... ISAAC ASIMOV A couple of months ago I had a dream, which I remember with the utmost clarity. (I don't usually rem... ISAAC ASIMOV There was no doubt about it: the City was the culmination of man’s mastery over the environment. N... ISAAC ASIMOV If I am right, then [religious fundamentalists] will not go to Heaven, because there is no Heaven. I... ISAAC ASIMOV That we have come as far as we have in forty years [the 1930s to the 1970s] is hopeful, though I bel... ISAAC ASIMOV University President: Why is it that you physicists always require so much expensive equipment? Now ... ISAAC ASIMOV A poor idea well written is more likely to be accepted than a good idea poorly written ISAAC ASIMOV A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First o... ISAAC ASIMOV The trouble is that racial stereotypes, unfavourable to everyone but white men of northwest European... ISAAC ASIMOV To introduce something altogether new would mean to begin all over, to become ignorant again, and to... ISAAC ASIMOV A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. [Th... ISAAC ASIMOV I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes. ISAAC ASIMOV Nunca dejes que la moral te impida dejar de hacer lo que está bien ISAAC ASIMOV It's not so much what you have to learn if you accept weird theories, it's what you have to unlearn ISAAC ASIMOV The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not "Eure... ISAAC ASIMOV To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. ISAAC ASIMOV