# Quote — Isaac Asimov, The Currents of Space

> Trantor could win even such a war, but perhaps not without paying a price that would make victory only a pleasanter name for defeat.

- 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: 62
- 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), [success and failure](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/success-and-failure.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-currents-of-space/trantor-could-win

## More from this book

> 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.

p. 63 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-currents-of-space/first-there-must.md)

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

> 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)