Frustration of my plans to lighten the disaster will convince people that the future holds no promise for them. Already they recall the lives of their grandfathers with envy. They will see that political revolutions and trade stagnations will increase. The feeling will pervade the Galaxy that only what a man can grasp for himself at that moment will be of any account. Ambitious men will not wait and unscrupulous men will not hang back. By their every action they will hasten the decay of the worlds. Isaac Asimov
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This saying was written by the American pessimist Herbert George Wells in his science fiction novel The Time Machine. In the book, the protagonist travels into the past to witness a man who appears to be a combination of an ape and modern man, but is actually the last of his kind. As he contemplates what his people are becoming, he says that all of them are destroying their world so that they won't have to live in it.

Source: The Foundation Trilogy

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