The best Quotes from Foundation

Change is frightening. Especially to those in power.

We can murder the man, but what about the movement, brother? Martyrs tend to have a long half-life.

Words have a way of fanning into wildfires.

We must preserve only the most essential pieces of civilization. Deciding what is remembered, what is forgotten.

Many years from now, if humanity is to climb from the ashes, the coming generations will need the knowledge to build upon, a foundation.

It's not a theory. It's the future of mankind expressed in numbers. And the empire won't like the future I predict.

When I was a child at the edge of the galaxy I heard stories about a man who could forecast the future. But the story remained dark to me until many years later. Until it became my story. Until it became the only story.

You can't save yourselves. But you can save your legacy.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.

Past glories are poor feeding.

Childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child.

He was conscious only of the mightiest deed of man; the complete and almost contemptuously final conquest of a world.

Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well.