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.
To use words to sense reality is like going with a lamp to search for darkness.
And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ringο»Ώ passed out of all knowledge.
Let us labor for the security of free thought, free speech, pure morals, unfettered religious sentiments, and equal rights and privileges for all men, irrespective of nationality, color, or religion;.... leave the matter of religious teaching to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep church and state forever separate.
Why is it so difficult to assemble those things that really matter in life and to dwell among them only? I am referring to certain landscapes, persons, beasts, books, rooms, meteorological conditions, fruits.
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.
Mine alone is the country of my soul.
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