# The Engines Of God

- Author: [Jack Mcdevitt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt.md)
- Quotes: 8
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god

## Quotes

> The problem is that too often the only people who can act don’t want change. Power doesn’t so much corrupt as it breeds conservatism.

p. 356 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/the-problem-is-that.md)

> How does it happen that the most intractable types always rise to the top?

p. 81 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/how-does-it-happen.md)

> He objected on principle to the powerful.

p. 213 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/he-objected-on-principle.md)

> He would make a good manager, but he had a little too much integrity to survive in a top job.

p. 161 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/he-would-make.md)

> The cultures we can look at had already grasped the essential unity of nature. No board of gods can survive that knowledge.

p. 107 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/the-cultures-we-can.md)

> Show me what a people admire, and I will tell you everything about them that matters.

p. 398 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/show-me-what.md)

> Maybe the universe doesn’t approve of places like New York.

p. 408 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/maybe-the-universe.md)

> Henry had been around long enough to know better than to disagree. But he forgot to implement.

p. 142 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-mcdevitt/the-engines-of-god/henry-had-been.md)