The best Quotes by Gaal Dornick

A long time ago... a man showed me how to predict the future. Our foundation to save humanity was born.

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

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.

We fight for Peace. Not because we fear we will lose, but because we know that if there is war, we will win.

An empire breathes respect. It requires it for it's life.

In my empire there's a natural order. The Foundation is a threat to me.

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.

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.

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.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Lip: "Hey, whoa. You really think they deserve your hard-earned money for that service?"
Frank: "Dine and dash?"
Lip: "Bite and bolt."
Frank: "Eat it and beat it?"

What can I say, once you go white, you always stay tight. Hey, I think I just insulted myself.