John Brunner Quotes

There are two kinds of fools. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, " This is new, and therefore better.

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't know know of a quicker way to become unpopular than to disagree.

It's common platitude that knowledge is neutral but every now and then it would be useful if it was on your side and not theirs.

It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button.

She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He had once, for example, put down a spokesman for the pesticide industry with a remark that people still quoted at parties: "And I presume on the eighth day God called you and said, 'I changed my mind about insects!

Putain mais quelle fichue imagination je peux avoir ...

…as though, capable themselves of suffering, they granted no reality to the suffering of others. ‘The subject exhibited a pain response.’ But not, under any circumstances, we hurt her.

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing.