Ben Bova

Quotes

1. Even snaky little Vyborg chatted happily with a few of the glowing-eyed young women that clustered about him, Eberly noted. Power goes to some people’s heads; in other people, power goes straight to the groin.

   p. 397

2. 

   “A teacher?” Vyborg gasped. “They got rid of him in Mexico because he was teaching unauthorized garbage. Do you want him teaching his blasphemies here?”

   Berkowitz’s smile diminished by less than a millimeter. “Freedom of thought is not blasphemous, Sammi. He’s a great teacher.”

   p. 134

3. 

   He’s so doggone narrow-minded he could look through a keyhole with both eyes.

   p. 222

4. 

   “The real problem,” Eberly burst out, “is that these regulations were written by people who live in a world that must be tightly controlled. They all share the same basic, underlying view that society must be hierarchical and controlled from the top.”

   Wilmot felt pleased that the discussion was moving into his field of interest. “Aren’t all societies controlled from the top? Even so-called democracies are ruled by a small elite group; the only difference is that a democracy can shift its elite without bloodshed and give the general populace the illusion that they have made a telling change.”

   p. 115

5. 

   “Wake up in there!” Fritz hollered.

   “I’m awake,” said Gaeta.

   “These days you spend too much time in bed and not enough time sleeping.”

   p. 340

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