John Brunner

For all the claims one hears about the liberating impact of the data-net, the truth is that it's wished on most of…

— John Brunner

“Take stock, citizen bacillus, Now that there are so many billions of you, Bleeding through your opened veins, Into your bathtub, or…

— John Brunner

“What hurt him most of all, made him feel like a sick child aware of terrible wrongness and yet incapable of explaining…

— John Brunner

“He had many names, but one nature, and this unique nature made him subject to certain laws not binding upon ordinary persons.…

— John Brunner

“True, you’re not a slave. You’re worse off than that by a long, long way. You’re a predatory beast shut up in…

— John Brunner

“There's an ingrained distrust in our society of highly intelligent, highly trained, highly competent persons. One need only look at the last…

— John Brunner

“It's natural for a man to defend what's dear to him: his own life, his home, his family. But in order to…

— John Brunner

“Time entails memory, memory entails conscience, conscience entails thought for the future, which is itself implied by the existence of time.”

— John Brunner

“It's not because my mind is made up that I don't want you to confuse me with any more facts. It's because…

— John Brunner

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

— John Brunner

“The walls were chipped and needed paint. The windows were mostly okay but one pane was blocked with cardboard. There were fleas…

— John Brunner

“Right! Right! 'Stead of which, over here, they shit in the water until it's dangerous to drink, then make a fucking fortune…

— John Brunner

NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed…

— John Brunner

“She recalled him as a forceful and witty speaker with a ready repartee and a penetrating voice. He had once, for example,…

— John Brunner

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

— John Brunner

To go faster you must slow down.

— John Brunner

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

— John Brunner

“Next, the stalled cars had their windows opaqued with a cheap commercial compound used for etching glass, and slogans were painted on…

— John Brunner

How do you whip up resentment against absentee landlords and pocketers of bribes when the highest ambition of the people is either…

— John Brunner

Let's all be different same as me.

— John Brunner

“We cannot afford the luxury known as conscience. The enemy we are up against certainly doesn't have one, so we are obliged…

— John Brunner

I'm myself, not a label.

— John Brunner

I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been…

— John Brunner

What people want, mainly, is to be told by some plausible authority that what they are already doing is right. I don't…

— John Brunner

“Best if the driver didn't have to get hurt. Though having been fool enough to volunteer for army service, of course, and…

— John Brunner