Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him? — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
“At the very moment when man is on the verge of realizing his hope, he begins to lose it.” — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.” — David Marusek Copy Share Image
“Outside, even through the shut window-pane, the world looked cold.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Perhaps every society is a utopia when you fail to peel up all the layers and look at what's underneath” — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
“Don't look like you're going to cry all the time." She scowled. "Tears are one of their favourite drinks around here.” — L.C. Perry Copy Share Image
“...because of the foulness of her mother's emotional river, a current which ran swift, changing its path without warning...” — Tamara Rose Blodgett Copy Share Image
“Just because our world is wrong doesn’t mean people don’t enjoy the binds which are holding them in. At least their binds… — Rebecca Crunden Copy Share Image
“path is only a name for a place where you find yourself. Where you're going on it is only a story. Where… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“I catch movement from the corner of my eye. A tell slender boy stands near us, just a few feet away. Adrenaline… — Georgia Clark Copy Share Image
“Life’s a no-rules cage fight.” That’s what Alex used to say—back when he still had fire in his eyes, when it sounded… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“This was what they’d been told all along in the army: “It’s us or them. War’s coming. No way around it.” And… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
Our problem right now is that we're so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Lena squeezed her eyes shut until white flashes popped. And in that moment she knew: nothing would ever be the same again.… — Slava Pilotoff Copy Share Image
“Level-1 or world space is an anthropomorphically scaled, predominantly vision-configured, massively multi-slotted reality system that is obsolescing very rapidly. Garbage time is… — Nick Land Copy Share Image
“Believe nothing others tell you. That is Rule No 1 of life in Astro City. But what if the ones who set… — Lisa Alfonso Copy Share Image
“I could be listening to Painted Red weave the stories of the saints in her rich roomy voice, and beginning to see… — John Crowley Copy Share Image
“If you love someone, if someone loved you, if they taught you to write and made it so you could speak, how… — Ally Condie, Crossed Copy Share Image
“All the enormous machines that keep full Citizens comfortable far above us in their glittering towers, all the infrastructure of power, of… — Julio-Alexi Genao Copy Share Image
“The six stories of dirt and mile of distance between us and the Citizens of Iris is far from insurmountable, but we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“To attribute these two great developments to the Central Committee, is to take a very narrow view of civilization. The Central Committee… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“And of course she had studied the civilization that had immediately preceded her own - the civilization that had mistaken the functions… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“Big discoveries call for even bigger responsibility, since they come with the biggest hazards, if they get into the wrong hands. As… — Sima B. Moussavian Copy Share Image
“A powerful AI system tasked with ensuring your safety might imprison you at home. If you asked for happiness, it might hook… — James Barrat Copy Share Image
“A utopian system, when established by men, is likely to be synonymous with a dystopian depression. The only way for perfect peace… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“In Southern California it didn't make any difference anyhow where you went; there was always the same McDonaldburger place over and over,… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
“This war ends, then so do the taxpayer-funded contracts, the drumbeats in the media, the nice Combatant faces, and the patriotic cause… — S. J. Kincaid Copy Share Image
“The collective sign of relief heaved on V-J Day ought to have inspired Hollywood to release a flood of "happily ever after"… — Eddie Muller Copy Share Image
“Maybe it's ALWAYS the end of the world. Maybe you're alive for a while, and then you realize you're going to die,… — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
“Perfect crime,' he said softly. 'Yes?' 'Persuade an innocent, idealistic young girl that the future of the human race depends on her… — Jane Rogers Copy Share Image
“HECUBA: I had a knife in my skirt, Achilles. When Talthybius bent over me, I could have killed him. I wanted to.… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
“Inside the room there sat a rocker, which she sat on, and which had rocked her while she sipped the beer, because… — Justin Dobbs Copy Share Image
