They don't want equal time - they want all the time there is.
Interpretation
The quote suggests that some individuals do not seek a fair share of attention or opportunity, but rather seek to dominate every moment with their presence or ideas.
Isaac Asimov's quote highlights the nature of certain individuals or groups who are not satisfied with sharing attention or resources equally. Instead, they desire to monopolize every opportunity, reflecting a deeper commentary on power dynamics and the human tendency towards control and dominance in various aspects of life, whether in relationships, discussions, or societal structures.
In practice
This quote can be used in a discussion about workplace dynamics where one individual seeks to overshadow others.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies.
Science does not promise absolute truth, nor does it consider that such a thing necessarily exists. Science does not even promise that everything in the Universe is amenable to the scientific process.
Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.
Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism.
A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable.
What you select from, in order to tell your story, is nothing less than everything. What you build up your world from, your local, intelligible rational, coherent world, is nothing less than everything. . . . . All human knowledge is local. Every life, each human life is local, is arbitrary, the infinitesimal momentary glitter of a reflection.
Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man.
It was all a matter of control. And Choice. Nothing more, nothing less
I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me.
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.
The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.
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