Quotes from book
There Will Be Time

There Will Be Time is a science fiction novel by American writer Poul Anderson. It was published in 1972 in a hardback edition by Doubleday and in 1973 in a paperback edition by New American Library.

Variant: Bombing: A method of warfare which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Osaka, etc., though not Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Cf. missile.
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 3 (p. 30)

“Mortal combat corrupts, and war corrupts absolutely.”
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 10 (p. 107)

“Did ignorance save his freedom, or merely his illusion of freedom?”
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 12 (p. 130)

“Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.”
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 126)

“His conscience must have gotten tired of nagging him and delivered an ultimatum.”
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 10 (p. 104)

“Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.”
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 16 (p. 175)