"He had lost his race. And he knew that he had lost it, not by the few weeks or months that he had feared, but by mill…"

"When this book was written in the early 1950s, I was still quite impressed by the evidence for what is generally call…"

"Science can destroy religion by ignoring it as well as by disproving its tenets."

"If you want a single proof of the essential—how shall I put it—benevolence of the Overlords, think of that cruelty-to…"

"It was a tribute to the Overlords' psychology, and to their careful years of preparation, that only a few people fain…"

"Fifty years is ample time to change the world and it's people almost beyond recognition. All that I'd required for th…"

"All political problems," Karellen had once told Stormgren, "can be solved by the correct application of power"

"Crime had practically vanished. It had become unnecessary and impossible. When no one lacks anything there is no poin…"

"Western man had relearned-what the rest of the world had never forgotten-that there was nothing sinful in leisure as …"

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