Book: Eden

Imagine that some superior race came to Earth hundreds of years ago, during the religious wars, and wants to intervene in the conflict on the side of the weak. Relying on their power, they prohibit the burning of heretics, persecution of infidels and so on. And do you think they would be able to spread on the Ground your rationalism? After all, almost all of humanity was then a believer, they would have to destroy it to the last man, and they would have remained alone with their rationalistic ideas.

Astronautics is clean, does not stain the fruit of human curiosity.

I feared that in the presence of nobility, you will want to restore order here, the translation into practice would mean terror.

To conquer the world, it is first necessary to know.

Some regular tyrant, apparently, attacked the idea that personal anonymity at the existing management system will be more profitable. Society, not being able to concentrate resistance to direct hostility at a particular person becomes in some measure morally disarmed.

We saw as much as could see the blind.

War is the worst way of gathering information about a foreign culture.