Paul de Bursac: You don't think much of me, Captain Morgan. You're wondering why they have chosen me for this mission. I wonder to...o. As you know, I am not a brave man. On the contrary, I'm always frightened. I wish I could borrow your nature for awhile, Captain. When you meet danger, you never think of anything except how you will circumvent it. The word failure does not even exist for you. While I, I think always, suppose I fail and that I am frightened. Harry Morgan: Yeah, I can easily see how it wouldn't take much courage to get a notorious patriot off Devils' Island. But uh, but just for professional reasons, I'd like to know how you're going to do it. Paul de Bursac: We will find a way. It might fail, and if it does and I'm, I'm still alive, I will try to pass on my information, my mission, to someone else, perhaps to a better man who does not fail. Because there is always someone else. That is the mistake the Germans always make with people they try to destroy. There will be always someone else.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less... need of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We must have constantly present in our minds the difference between independence and liberty. Liberty is a right of doing whatever... the laws permit, and if a citizen could do what they forbid he would no longer be possessed of liberty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let us make no mistake about it, this propagation was never one of her laws, nothing she ever demanded of us, but at the very most... something she tolerated; I have told you so. Why! what difference would it make to her were the race of men entirely to be extinguished upon earth, annihilated! she laughs at our pride when we persuade ourselves all would be over and done with were this misfortune to occur!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonpla...ce truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Let's start with the three fundamental Rules of Robotics.... We have: one, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inact...ion, allow a human being to come to harm. Two, a robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. And three, a robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In France, and at the most important period of our history, Catherine de' Medici has suffered more from popular error than any oth...er woman, unless it be Brunehaut or Frédégonde; while Marie de' Medici, whose every action was prejudicial to France, has escaped the disgrace that should cover her name.... Catherine de' Medici ... saved the throne of France, she maintained [the] Royal authority under circumstances to which more than one great prince would have succumbed. Face to face with such leaders of the factions and ambitions of the houses of Guise and of Bourbon as the two Cardinals de Lorraine and the two "Balafrès," the two Princes de Condé, Queen Jeanne d'Albret, Henri IV, the Connétable de Montmorency, Calvin, the Colignys and Théodore de Bèze, she was forced to put forth the rarest fine qualities, the most essential gifts of statesmanship, under the fire of the Calvinist press.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature knows nothing but solid bodies; your science deals only with combinations of surfaces. And so nature constantly gives the l...ie to all your laws; can you name one to which no fact makes an exception?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »