# Quote — Isaac Asimov, The Gods Themselves

> “It is a mistake,” he said, “to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort. We know that well enough from our experience in the environmental crisis of the twentieth century.”

- Author: [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md)
- Book: [The Gods Themselves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-gods-themselves.md)
- Page: 56
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Isaac_Asimov#The_Gods_Themselves_(1972)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [society](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/society.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-gods-themselves/it-is-a-mistake

## More from this book

> Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.

p. 82 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-gods-themselves/tritt-listened-placidly.md)

> You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience. The words are even on the same page in the dictionary.

p. 244 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-gods-themselves/you-know-that.md)

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

> There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.

p. 287 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-gods-themselves/there-are-no-happy.md)

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