# Quote — Isaac Asimov, The Currents of Space

> First, there must be an end to war and national rivalry and only then could one turn to the internal miseries that, after all, had external conflict as their chief cause.

- Author: [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md)
- Book: [The Currents of Space](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-currents-of-space.md)
- Page: 63
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#The_Currents_of_Space_(1952)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-currents-of-space/first-there-must

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> Junz found revulsion growing strong within him. A planet full of people meant nothing against the dictates of economic necessity!

p. 184 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-currents-of-space/junz-found-revulsion.md)

Topics: [morality](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/morality.md)

> “You make interstellar politics sound a very dirty game.”
>
> “It is, but disapproving of dirt doesn’t remove it.”

p. 141 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-currents-of-space/you-make-interstellar.md)

Topics: [politics](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/politics.md)

> No one is so modest as not to believe himself a competent amateur sleuth.

p. 114 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-currents-of-space/no-one-is-so-modest.md)

Topics: [pride](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/pride.md)