The Naked Sun Quotes

Victories over ingrained patterns of thought are not won in a day or a year.

What was the first thing a man must do before he can be a man? He must be born. He must leave the womb. And once left, it could not be reentered.

The action of social revolution and the reaction of guarding against such revolution or combating it once it has begun are the causes of a great deal of the human misery with which history is permeated.

Logical but not reasonable. Wasn’t that the definition of a robot?

Civilizations have always been pyramidal in structure. As one climbs toward the apex of the social edifice, there is increased leisure and increasing opportunity to pursue happiness. As one climbs, one finds also fewer and fewer people to enjoy this more and more. Invariably, there is a preponderance of the dispossessed. And remember this, no matter how well off the bottom layers of the pyramid might be on an absolute scale, they are always dispossessed in comparison with the apex.