Samuel R. Delany - Man Quotes

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A lesson which history should have taught us thousands of years ago was finally driven home. No man can wield absolute power over other men and still retain his own mind. For no matter how good his intentions are when he takes up the power, his alternate reason is that freedom, the freedom of other people and ultimately his own, terrifies him. Only a man afraid of freedom would want this power, who could conceive of wielding it. And that fear of freedom will turn him into a slave of this power.

Samuel R. Delany

The captain is different too, Cyana. Before, the Roc flew under half a man, a man who'd only known victory. Now I'm a whole man. I know defeat as well.

Samuel R. Delany

Imagine, a great web that spreads across the galaxy, as far as man. That's the matrix in which history happens today.... Each individual is a junction in that net, and the strands between are the cultural, the economic, the psychological threads that hold individual to individual.

Samuel R. Delany

There is a sense of decency that's like a barometer to a man's or a country's health.

Samuel R. Delany