Frases de Jack Williamson

John Stewart Williamson , mais conhecido como Jack Williamson, foi um escritor dos Estados Unidos especializado em ficção científica.

Williamson passou sua infância no Texas, mais tarde, em 1915, seus pais se mudaram para o Novo México em busca de terras melhores. Wikipedia

✵ 29. Abril 1908 – 10. Novembro 2006

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Jack Williamson: Frases em inglês

“Power is habit-forming. We grew addicted to it. Few things survive the centuries’ slow decay: senses grow dull; passions grow weak; and ideals die. Only the taste for power lives on as an excuse for survival.”

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Jack Williamson livro Star Bridge

Fonte: Star Bridge (1955), Chapter 20, “Prime Mover” (p. 275)

“You have a right to be curious. And I have a right to refuse to satisfy it. You may credit it to your own charm or an old man’s whim, if you like. You are interesting, you know. Hired killers always are. Not admirable, but interesting.”

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Jack Williamson livro Star Bridge

Fonte: Star Bridge (1955), Chapter 11, “The Turning Tide” (p. 150)

“Conquerors live by conquest; the first failure is a signal for the conquered to rise against them.”

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Jack Williamson livro Star Bridge

Fonte: Star Bridge (1955), Chapter 6, “Flight” (p. 78)

“Creation.… It is its own nemesis. Success is temporary, and idolization will not make the ephemeral permanent. Decay is implicit in the birth of any organism. An empire is an organism.”

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Jack Williamson livro Star Bridge

Fonte: Star Bridge (1955), “The History,” prelude to Chapter 18, “War” (p. 237)

“Civilization.…
Like everything else, it has a price. The down payment is freedom. For the privilege of living together, men surrender the right to do as they please; they make laws and restrict themselves within them.
When civilization is conferred from outside, the price is even steeper: someone else makes the laws.”

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Jack Williamson livro Star Bridge

Fonte: Star Bridge (1955), “The History,” prelude to Chapter 3, “The Narrow Bridge” (p. 37)