When stupidity is considered patriotism, it is unsafe to be intelligent. - Isaac Asimov

Dors shook her head. "I can't bear to hear a human being spoken of with contempt just because of his group identification — even by other human beings. It's these respectable people here who create those hooligans out there.

The fall of Trantor," said Seldon, "cannot be stopped by any conceivable effort. It can be hastened easily, however. The tale of my interrupted trial will spread through the Galaxy. Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promise to them. Already they recall the lives of their grandfathers with envy. They will see that political revolutions and trade stagnations will increase. The feeling will pervade the Galaxy that only what a man can grasp for himself at that moment will be of any account. Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds.

Él podía ser un extranjero, pero un hombre siempre es un hombre.